The Trudeau government announced temporary increases to the GST credit and Canada Child Benefit.
employment insurance
March 18, 2020
3:42PM
Ottawa will spend up to $27 billion supporting individual Canadians and businesses.
October 7, 2019
11:14AM
In 2009, regular EI benefits surged by 43.4 per cent or nearly $5.0 billion.
February 25, 2016
9:27AM
A GAI would likely require large-scale lay-offs of bureaucrats to achieve substantial administrative savings—a move that would obviously face strong internal political opposition.
November 17, 2015
10:59AM
Prime Minister Trudeau's letter to Finance Minister Bill Morneau lists 27 priorities—we offer a quick reaction to 13 of these priorities.
October 20, 2015
1:33PM
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Finance Minister Paul Martin cut federal government spending as a per cent of GDP and raised the employment insurance threshold to between 12 and 20 weeks.
March 24, 2014
3:00AM
There is nothing like an election to bring out the optimistic side in peopleand some mythmaking. In Quebec, recent attention focused on Premier Pauline Marois and her musings that if her party wins the provincial election, and if separation one day occurs, that Quebec would keep the Canadian dollar, seek a seat on the Bank of Canada, and that Quebecois might have dual citizenship.