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Government Spending Commentary Archive

Political party subsidies: A $370-million bill
By Mark Milke | April 10, 2011
Not a Credible Deficit Elimination Plan
By Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam | March 30, 2011
Airport tunnel report should be released by city
By Mark Milke | March 27, 2011
Ottawa facing significant financial risk if Canada suffers a major earthquake
By Neil Mohindra | March 26, 2011
Conservatives offer up a high-tax plan
By Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam | March 24, 2011
Budget like it's 1995
By Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam | March 14, 2011
Time for Canadian politicians to follow Wisconsin's lead
By Niels Veldhuis, Milagros Palacios | March 5, 2011
Spending challenges leave BC's premier-designate with less budget flexibility than promised
By Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam | March 4, 2011
Corporate welfare or Crown prosecutors? How corporate welfare undermines core services
By Mark Milke | February 28, 2011
Alberta's finances: Welcome back to the 1980s
By Mark Milke | February 26, 2011
Take a page from the 1995 budget
By Niels Veldhuis | February 24, 2011
Follow Chretien; We need to slash $15.7-billion in federal program spending
By Niels Veldhuis, Jason Clemens | February 18, 2011
Cut spending now; Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has been putting off the tough decisions needed to balance the budget
By Niels Veldhuis, Jason Clemens | January 21, 2011
Without skin in the game, banks won't tighten lending standards
By Neil Mohindra | January 12, 2011
Top priorities for new BC Liberal leader
By Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam | January 4, 2011
Canada’s non-subsidized auto companies continue to thrive
By Mark Milke | December 12, 2010
The missing budget-saving option: civic salaries
By Mark Milke | November 28, 2010
Air Canada still flying high on Ottawa's corporate welfare
By Herbert Grubel | November 12, 2010
A tale of four Western premiers
By Mark Milke | October 31, 2010
Spendthrift McGuinty; Ontario Premier is bottom of the list on fiscal sanity
By Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam | October 26, 2010
Premier Campbell's popularity doesn't match his performance
By Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam | October 26, 2010
Federal government should reform the employment insurance system instead of increasing EI premiums
By Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam | October 19, 2010
Ignatieff has it backward on corporate income taxes
By Charles Lammam, Niels Veldhuis | October 13, 2010
This can't go on; Opposition politicians in Ottawa want more spending while the Conservatives have no plans to cut back
By Niels Veldhuis, Charles Lammam | September 23, 2010
$823 million tunnel not worth it; Tunnel would require $32.9 million in principal and interest costs annually
By Mark Milke | September 19, 2010