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Government Spending Commentary Archive

Alberta’s 10-year, $49 billion boom in program spending
By Mark Milke | February 21, 2015
B.C.’s 2015 budget: The status quo isn’t good enough
By Charles Lammam, Milagros Palacios | February 18, 2015
Government compensation outpacing the private sector in Ontario
By Charles Lammam, Niels Veldhuis | February 18, 2015
Smart reform can fix Alberta’s finances
By Charles Lammam, Jason Clemens | February 14, 2015
Ralph Klein saved health care and education
By Mark Milke | February 14, 2015
Balancing the Ontario budget by 2017-18 just a pipe dream
By Livio Di Matteo | February 6, 2015
Off-balance: Ontario growing expenditures faster than revenues
By Livio Di Matteo | February 2, 2015
Digging Alberta out of the deficit hole
By Mark Milke | January 31, 2015
Government workers' compensation out of line with the private sector
By Charles Lammam, Jason Clemens | January 30, 2015
Government workers in B.C. make more, receive better pensions, and retire earlier than private sector workers in similar positions
By Charles Lammam, Jason Clemens | January 27, 2015
Ontario premier's fiscal imprudence is reckless
By Charles Lammam, Mark Milke | January 25, 2015
Feds and provinces unlikely to ever agree on guaranteed annual income
By Charles Lammam, Hugh MacIntyre | January 12, 2015
Alberta already tried to diversify her economy—and failed
By Mark Milke | January 10, 2015
Myth of energy-induced booms and busts
By Jason Clemens, Charles Lammam | December 27, 2014
Equalization allows Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to pass up jobs, income, and tax revenues
By Ben Eisen, Mark Milke | December 23, 2014
Ontario Auditor General’s not-so-subtle debt warning
By Mark Milke, Charles Lammam | December 13, 2014
Calgary’s property tax increases
By Mark Milke | December 6, 2014
Quebec’s deep-rooted fiscal problems need a big fix
By Charles Lammam, Hugh MacIntyre | December 6, 2014
Worried about Alberta’s budget? Stop counting on high resource prices
By Mark Milke | December 1, 2014
Prentice’s Path: Getty or Klein?
By Charles Lammam, Jason Clemens | November 28, 2014
France’s failed tax and spend experiment
By Mark Milke | November 15, 2014
With deficit slayed, tax relief, not more spending should top Ottawa’s agenda
By Charles Lammam, Milagros Palacios | November 13, 2014
There's good reason to monitor government spending
By Mark Milke | September 20, 2014
Tesla parks major investment in low-tax Nevada
By Sean Speer, Charles Lammam | September 18, 2014
Once all the costs are counted, the Canada Pension Plan isn't a model of efficiency
By Philip Cross, Joel Emes | September 3, 2014