Despite unprecedented stimulus, Canada’s annual real GDP growth over the past four years has remained stuck in the range of 1.0 to 2.0...
Our reliance on deficits to prop up spending while incomes stagnate has left us poorer economically and has weakened our national unity and...
The 2019 budget reveals the government’s attempt to make a budgetary deficit a central part of its political argument, writes Sean Speer. By...
Spending in this budget is not concentrated in specific areas where government can make a difference, but spread far and wide so it...
The Trudeau government’s deficit is increasingly driven by deliberate choices to spend more than it collects in revenues, writes Sean Speer. By Sean...
OTTAWA, ON (February 14, 2019): A recent series of speeches, articles, and debates is provoking big questions about deficits and debt. Do they...
In its Fall Economic Statement, the government now anticipates perpetual deficits with no return to budgetary balance on the horizon, writes Sean Speer....
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...
The Trudeau government cannot blame its budgetary deficit on its predecessor, external shocks or other factors, writes Sean Speer. By Sean Speer, October...
Politics in the United Kingdom is currently focused on a debate between so-called “austerity” and public investment. The past seven years or so...
