Governments can find themselves at a new baseline spending level far in excess of revenues.
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Alberta’s per-person government debt has eclipsed $10,000 this year.
Chronic deficits through good times and bad have led to a roughly $70 billion erosion of the province’s financial assets.
For now, the new wage subsidy program will cost $71 billion.
Businesses large and small face disproportionate property tax rates for the foreseeable future.
There were 4,588 overdose deaths in Canada in 2018.
Once you adjust for inflation and population growth, Alberta’s economy barely grew at all between 2008 and 2018.
Default risk and exchange-rate risk increase for foreign lenders as they increase their holdings of any government’s debt.
Provincial government debt-service costs are set to reach $13.2 billion this year.
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