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Ellen Russell
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Federal Fiscal Forecasting Round 4
Report to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Download 196.34 KB
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Free money? Think twice.
Free money for everyone when the Finance Minister makes a mistake! I’m referring of course to the government’s proposal to give a third of “unanticipated“…
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The O’Neill Report on Federal Fiscal Forecasting
The dilemmas created by the government’s “no-deficit” fiscal rule Download 95.35 KB4 pages
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Federal Fiscal Forecasting Round 3
Report to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Download 208.03 KB
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The politics of stalling
What do same-sex marriage and the federal budget have in common? We can’t figure it out either, but both issues are being sucked into the…
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Liberal/NDP deal no “Faustian Bargain”
So there is an agreement in principle between the Liberals and the NDP. In return for helping to prevent this government from falling before it…
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Check the math before crying class warfare
“Canada’s Top 10% Pay 52% Of The Total Tax Bill” announced the front-page story in the Saturday Globe and Mail. Quite a sensational claim on…
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Is Stephen Harper a cheap date?
“What is wrong with you lefties?” asked the Economist of Considerable Renown. “That budget was a win for you.” In the immediate aftermath of the…
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Debunking the U-shaped Budget Surplus
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What Should We Do With the Federal Budget Surplus?
Alternative Federal Budget 2005: Technical Paper #1 Download 273.83 KB16 pages
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Liberals employing a piggy-bank debt strategy
Another lowball from the federal government. Instead of a $1.9 billion surplus as forecast last year, the Liberal finance minister this week announced that the…
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