Over the last 30 years, the CCPA has provided alternative research and analysis that have been indispensable in exposing the corporate agenda. I don’t know what I’d have done without them.
— Judy Rebick
Issue(s): Economy and economic indicators, Employment and labour, Environment and sustainability, Government finance, Health, Health care system, Pharmacare, Inequality and poverty, International trade & investment, Deep integration, Public services and privatization, Taxes and tax cuts
April 26, 2004
Ottawa--Canadians remember Paul Martin as the man who slew the deficit dragon "come hell or high water. " He fulfilled that promise by making the largest non-military public program cuts in Canadian history.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives today released "Hell and High Water," the most comprehensive assessment to date of the new Prime Minister's record as Finance Minister and its implications for the future. Ten policy experts examine major aspects of his record--debt and deficit, tax, economic, social, environmental, federal-provincial, and international.