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Tag Archives: debt

Chrystia Freeland’s tough week trying to defend breathtaking permanent spending plans: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post

At some point, Freeland will have to tell us we can’t spend what we can’t afford, writes Jack Mintz in the Financial Post....

 

October 1, 2020 at 12:49 pm read more

Warning! Liberal spending blitz ahead: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post

The Trudeau government seems bent on bribing voters with mountains of new debt that it will leave for others to pay, writes Jack...

 

August 24, 2020 at 8:12 pm read more

We don't need higher taxes to slay government debt: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post

Hiking taxes is the worst economic choice to achieve both growth and fiscal sustainability, writes Jack Mintz in the Financial Post. Below is...

 

July 29, 2020 at 10:39 am read more

Ottawa is in a 'vicious circle' of spending due to the pandemic: Philip Cross on BNN Bloomberg

MLI senior fellow Philip Cross appeared on BNN Bloomberg to discuss the testimony of Evan Siddall, the president and CEO of Canada Mortgage...

 

June 2, 2020 at 5:28 pm read more

Canada's debt load is even worse than you think: Jack Mintz in The Financial Post

Add it all up and Canada’s debt burden is $3.2 trillion. That’s 166 per cent of GDP — fully four times the IMF...

 

May 27, 2020 at 9:16 pm read more

Harsh medicine for the federal government’s COVID-19 hangover: Donald Savoie for Inside Policy

The ’90s deficit fighting solution of downloading won’t have the same impact this time. Federal spending and size of government need to be...

 

May 7, 2020 at 1:07 am read more

All this debt won’t be painless: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post

Countries with highly leveraged households, corporations and public sectors will face financial instability as credit spreads widen and currencies devalue, writes Jack Mintz. ...

 

April 22, 2020 at 3:20 pm read more

Grow to get over our new debt mountain: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post

The focus should be on education, growth-enhancing public infrastructure, moving to balanced budgets, tax and regulatory reform, and better and cheaper delivery of...

 

April 17, 2020 at 12:25 pm read more

A modest proposal on public service pay to help tackle the ballooning deficit: Philip Cross in the Financial Post

A permanent 20% reduction of public service pay seems warranted. Either that or the doubling of pension plan contributions, writes Philip Cross.  By...

 

April 9, 2020 at 3:50 pm read more

Expect more broken promises in federal budget as spending grows faster than economy: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post

It was wrong to push up deficits during good times, which now hangs as a massive weight on the Trudeau government’s fiscal neck,...

 

March 9, 2020 at 8:12 pm read more
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Macdonald-Laurier Institute's Pod Bless Canada · Ep. 63 - Where Hong Kong Stands Now with Sharon Hom, Alvin Y.H. Cheung, and Ai-Men Lau...

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