Understanding the 2019 Budget: Sean Speer on BNN Bloomberg

Following the unveiling of the Federal Government’s 2019 Budget, MLI Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer provided extensive commentary on BNN Bloomberg. This budget...

March 25, 2019 at 7:22 pm read more

Weaponizing deficit spending as a political tool: Sean Speer for Inside Policy

The 2019 budget reveals the government’s attempt to make a budgetary deficit a central part of its political argument, writes Sean Speer. By...

March 21, 2019 at 4:10 pm read more

Another sprawling, unfocused budget, and so little to show for all the red ink: Philip Cross in the Financial Post

Spending in this budget is not concentrated in specific areas where government can make a difference, but spread far and wide so it...

March 20, 2019 at 3:41 pm read more

Structural deficits expose Canada’s economy to risk: Sean Speer for Inside Policy

The Trudeau government’s deficit is increasingly driven by deliberate choices to spend more than it collects in revenues, writes Sean Speer. By Sean...

March 18, 2019 at 4:59 pm read more

Perpetual deficits and the failure to make tough choices: Sean Speer for Inside Policy

In its Fall Economic Statement, the government now anticipates perpetual deficits with no return to budgetary balance on the horizon, writes Sean Speer....

November 22, 2018 at 4:06 pm read more

Fall economic update is a chance to correct three years of flawed policy: Speer and Crowley in the Globe and Mail

Minister Morneau is right to put competitiveness back at the centre of his agenda. It should have been there all along. Work and...

November 20, 2018 at 3:17 am read more

Debate is needed on Ottawa's spending plans: Sean Speer in the Toronto Sun

Ottawa shouldn’t be running deficits for deficit’s sake or spending for spending’s sake; protecting the federal government’s fiscal capacity must be a priority...

November 15, 2018 at 11:25 pm read more