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Is the Canada Child Benefit Targeted to those Most in Need?
By Christopher A. Sarlo, Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios | October 6, 2020
Insights from the text of the throne speech
By Jason Clemens, Jake Fuss | September 24, 2020
Throne speech may offer fundamental choice to parents about Canada’s future
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios | September 22, 2020
Trudeau government eyeing massive new social programs
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios | September 17, 2020
Trudeau government should learn from Ontario’s green energy failure
By Elmira Aliakbari, Jason Clemens | September 17, 2020
Green recovery plan ignores practical limitations of government
By Tegan Hill, Jake Fuss, Jason Clemens | September 10, 2020
Trudeau government spending billions to make people better off than before recession
By Jason Clemens, Nathaniel Li | September 8, 2020
Trudeau moving Canada towards American-style government with more centralized decision-making, federal spending, borrowing
By Jason Clemens, Nathaniel Li | August 28, 2020
Expanding government won’t help Canada’s recovery
By Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis | August 28, 2020
Poor CERB targeting wastes billions
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Nathaniel Li | August 27, 2020
Federal Government Wasting Billions on Poorly Targeted Assistance
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Nathaniel Li, Niels Veldhuis | August 27, 2020
Trudeau government should pivot away from Morneau-era policies of weakness
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios | August 24, 2020
History is clear—the Trudeau government needs to change direction
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Niels Veldhuis | July 31, 2020
Blog series part 2—Incomes, overall income economy grew more slowly under Liberals than before 2008-09 recession
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Niels Veldhuis | July 24, 2020
Blog series part 1—Trudeau government produced string of deficits, raised taxes on middle class
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Niels Veldhuis | July 23, 2020
Young people living with their parents could receive $11.8 billion from CERB
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Nathaniel Li | July 16, 2020
Distribution of CERB: Estimating the Number of Eligible Young People Living with Parents
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, Nathaniel Li | July 16, 2020
COVID-19 isn’t the only reason for our mega-deficit
By Jason Clemens, Tegan Hill, Milagros Palacios | July 8, 2020
Trudeau government should provide fiscal projections to Canadians
By Jason Clemens, Jake Fuss | July 2, 2020
‘Creative destruction’ can help Canada recover from COVID recession
By Russell S. Sobel, Jason Clemens | July 2, 2020
The Essential Joseph Schumpeter
By Russell S. Sobel, Jason Clemens | July 2, 2020
Explaining the Growth in Federal Program Spending since 2015
By Tegan Hill, Nathaniel Li, Milagros Palacios, Jason Clemens | June 30, 2020
Think-tanks provide competing views on stimulus and infrastructure spending
By Niels Veldhuis, Jake Fuss, Jason Clemens | June 29, 2020
Alberta’s outsized role in Canada matters for all Canadians
By Tegan Hill, Jason Clemens | June 23, 2020
Reality of government matters when assessing policy options
By Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis | June 15, 2020
Potential permanent changes from our experience with COVID-19
By Jason Clemens, Mark Hasiuk | May 28, 2020
Trudeau government smashes spending record, must right country’s fiscal ship
By Jason Clemens, Tegan Hill, Milagros Palacios | May 27, 2020
Prime Ministers and Government Spending: Updated 2020 Edition
By Tegan Hill, Nathaniel Li, Milagros Palacios, Jason Clemens | May 26, 2020
Deferring Federal Taxes: Illustrating the Deficit Using the GST
By Tegan Hill, Milagros Palacios, Jason Clemens | May 26, 2020
Trudeau government COVID assistance lacks proper targeting
By Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios | May 22, 2020
Ottawa must remove disincentives to return to work
By Tegan Hill, Jason Clemens | May 14, 2020
Misinformation clouds reignited debate over guaranteed basic income
By Jason Clemens, Jake Fuss, Niels Veldhuis, Milagros Palacios | April 28, 2020
Getting political responsibility right in times of crises
By Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, Milagros Palacios | April 20, 2020
Ontario budget deficit likely larger than forecast
By Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, Milagros Palacios | April 16, 2020
Why differences between government and markets matters today—Public Choice in action, Part 2
By Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, Alex Whalen, Tegan Hill | April 16, 2020
Chrétien’s fiscal prudence lessons for Prime Minister Trudeau
By Jason Clemens, Jake Fuss, Milagros Palacios | April 15, 2020
What would Chrétien’s budget rules have meant for Trudeau: Part 2
By Jake Fuss, Milagros Palacios, Jason Clemens | April 15, 2020
Understanding the differences between government and markets—Public Choice in action, Part 1
By Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, Alex Whalen, Tegan Hill | April 14, 2020
Contrasting the Budget Rules of Chrétien and Trudeau: Part 1
By Jason Clemens, Jake Fuss, David R. Henderson | April 8, 2020
History of government difficulty in writing cheques to Canadians
By Alex Whalen, Tegan Hill, Jason Clemens | April 3, 2020
Trudeau government ‘wage subsidy’ increases uncertainty for workers and businesses
By Niels Veldhuis, Jason Clemens | April 3, 2020
Ford government’s budget update overly optimistic and likely ineffective
By Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, Milagros Palacios | April 2, 2020
Revisions to ‘wage subsidy’ program leave many questions unanswered
By Niels Veldhuis, Jason Clemens, Tegan Hill | April 1, 2020
Boost EI but don’t create new wage subsidy program
By Niels Veldhuis, Jason Clemens | March 26, 2020
Trudeau government gets unlimited spending authority for six months
By Niels Veldhuis, Jason Clemens, Bruce Pardy | March 26, 2020
An Affront to Democracy: New legislation proposed giving Liberals unprecedented powers
By Niels Veldhuis, Jason Clemens | March 24, 2020
Ottawa enacts measured, well-targeted response to coronavirus downturn
By Niels Veldhuis, Jason Clemens | March 20, 2020
Trudeau government’s COVID-19 fiscal response avoids major mistakes
By Niels Veldhuis, Jason Clemens | March 18, 2020
Stabilizing income vs. economic stimulus—what’s the difference?
By Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, Milagros Palacios | March 18, 2020
Trudeau government rejects almost every principle of historic 1995 Liberal budget
By Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis | March 6, 2020