Reforming OAS so that high-income seniors receive fewer benefits could produce cost-savings to pay for increased benefits to vulnerable seniors.
federal budget
March 30, 2016
3:00AM
It’s fairly clear that most of the budget's ‘infrastructure’ spending is not aimed at improving Canada’s roads, bridges and highways.
March 25, 2016
3:00AM
The whole country (except Nunavut) will be encouraged to over-invest in public transit since, under the cost-sharing formula, new dollars will only cost 50 cents.
March 24, 2016
9:35AM
By 2017/18 spending will be up by $50 billion from 2014/15, representing a jump of 20 per cent.
March 23, 2016
2:28PM
In the Liberal budget, only 0.2 per cent of the $8.4 billion designated for Aboriginal people is for skills and employment training.
March 23, 2016
1:45PM
For the most part, the government did not decide to reform or cut low-priority spending or ineffective programs.
March 22, 2016
10:41AM
As the Liberals table their first budget today, federal government debt has reached $692 billion.
March 21, 2016
11:58AM
Since 2007/08, Canada’s federal debt has grown by $176 billion to $692 billion in 2015/16.
March 21, 2016
4:00AM
On the eve of the new Liberal government’s first federal budget, the key is to get incentives right at home.
March 18, 2016
4:04PM
Prime Minister Trudeau’s upcoming first budget reportedly contains a deficit in excess of $30 billion.