Budgets are about choices that reflect a government's values and priorities. The Alternative Federal Budget shows what the federal government could do if it decided to seriously address Canadians’ largest social, economic, and environmental concerns.
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L’Alternative budgétaire pour le gouvernement fédéral (ABGF) montre ce que le gouvernement fédéral serait en mesure d’accomplir s’il se décidait à s’attaquer aux enjeux sociaux, économiques et environnements les plus importants pour la population canadienne. L'ABGF propose plutôt un plan qui sortirait 855 000 personnes de la pauvreté, réduirait les inégalités de revenus, stimulerait l’économie, abaisserait le taux de chômage à 5,4% et atteindrait malgré tout l’équilibre budgétaire avec une seule année de retard par rapport au plan du gouvernement fédéral.
OTTAWA— Le Centre canadien pour les politiques alternatives (CCPA) met en garde: un budget fédéralsoi-disant neutre risque plutôt d'aggraver le ralentissement de l’économie canadienne.
OTTAWA— The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) warns a so-called “do-nothing” federal budget is anything but, and is likely to worsen Canada’s slowing economy.
The CCPA’s 2014 Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) shows what the federal government could do if it decided to seriously address Canadians’ largest social, economic, and environmental concerns. It delivers a plan that would lift 855,000 Canadians out of poverty, reduce income inequality, boost the economy, lower unemployment to 5.4%—and still balance the budget one year later than the federal government plan.
OTTAWA – A report on the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS) has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Blank Cheque: National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy puts Canadians at Risk was written by University of British Columbia political science professor Michael Byers and defence analyst Stewart Webb (a visiting research fellow at the Rideau Institute and research associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives).
In 2010, the federal government committed itself to reinvigorating Canada’s shipbuilding industry. The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (NSPS), estimated to cost $35 billion, aims to procure new ships for the Royal Canadian Navy and for the Canadian Coast Guard. In this report, the authors examine the structure of the NSPS—and find that it is seriously flawed. The authors also call on the government to alter course, and offer some recommendations that would introduce much more competition and accountability to the procurement strategy.
CCPA Senior Economist David Macdonald gives a presentation to the government's Standing Committee on Finance during their 2013 pre-budget consultations.
On Thursday September 26th, the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives presented a night with former Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Kevin Page at the University of Regina. Mr. Page reflects on his tenure as the first PBO in Canada and the identifies the obstacles and challenges that his office faced daily in its attempt to offer Canadians a level of fiscal transparency from its government that has yet to be matched.
OTTAWA – A report on the planned procurement of Close Combat Vehicles has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
“Stuck in a Rut: Harper government overrides Canadian Army, insists on buying outdated equipment” was written by University of British Columbia political science professor Michael Byers and defence analyst Stewart Webb (a visiting research fellow at the Rideau Institute and research associate at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives).
This report questions the government's planned procurement of 108 new heavily armoured “Close Combat Vehicles” (CCVs). The estimated cost of the CCV project is $2 billion, and reportedly, the Canadian Army does not need or want the vehicles.