It’s fairly clear that most of the budget's ‘infrastructure’ spending is not aimed at improving Canada’s roads, bridges and highways.
Government Spending & Taxes
March 25, 2016
3:00AM
The whole country (except Nunavut) will be encouraged to over-invest in public transit since, under the cost-sharing formula, new dollars will only cost 50 cents.
March 24, 2016
9:35AM
By 2017/18 spending will be up by $50 billion from 2014/15, representing a jump of 20 per cent.
March 23, 2016
2:28PM
In the Liberal budget, only 0.2 per cent of the $8.4 billion designated for Aboriginal people is for skills and employment training.
March 22, 2016
2:50PM
Budget projects an increase in total federal debt of approximately $113 billion over the next five years.
March 22, 2016
10:41AM
As the Liberals table their first budget today, federal government debt has reached $692 billion.
March 21, 2016
10:40AM
The provincial government created a new five-bracket tax system with a top tax rate increasing by 50 per cent.
March 21, 2016
4:00AM
On the eve of the new Liberal government’s first federal budget, the key is to get incentives right at home.
March 19, 2016
3:10AM
Why has Ontario racked up so much debt?
March 18, 2016
2:33PM
Canada’s top combined personal income tax rates are now among the highest in the industrialized world.
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