Since 2007/08, Canada’s federal debt has grown by $176 billion to $692 billion in 2015/16.
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March 21, 2016
11:58AM
March 18, 2016
4:04PM
Prime Minister Trudeau’s upcoming first budget reportedly contains a deficit in excess of $30 billion.
March 16, 2016
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Eighty-eight per cent of minimum-wage earners do not live in a low-income household.
February 15, 2016
12:21PM
Only 1.5 per cent of Canadians remained stuck in low income every year.
February 12, 2016
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The word “pipeline” does not appear in the Wealth of Nations, but what the Danube is to ordinary shipping, pipelines now are to the delivery of oil and gas.
January 18, 2016
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Prime Minister Trudeau recently said that infrastructure spending is “the key” to kick-starting Canada’s economy.
January 11, 2016
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The main reason for the relatively slow increase in exports, notwithstanding the weak Canadian dollar, is the ongoing slow recovery of the U.S. economy.
November 24, 2015
9:27AM
Canada enjoyed an economic and fiscal renaissance starting in the mid-1990s that lasted more than a decade.
November 6, 2015
8:53AM
An "implicit tax" is implicit only in the sense that it doesn’t officially appear in the income tax code.
October 7, 2015
12:41PM
With a relatively weak Canadian economy, depressed commodity prices and the myriad of international economic issues (i.e. uncertainty in China), federal parties should offer solutions to the economic storm clouds on the horizon.