Since 2015, federal spending has increased by more than 76 per cent.
government programs
October 4, 2023
9:06AM
There’s nothing peculiar about letter delivery, trains, television and radio programs, or alcohol sales that justifies governmental operation.
July 27, 2022
9:37AM
This year the federal government expects to spend $52.8 billion more than it has in revenues.
August 28, 2020
1:59PM
If Prime Minister Trudeau keeps his commitment to no new taxes, borrowing will finance the proposed expansion.
March 2, 2018
1:38PM
If more innovation programs were all we needed to solve our innovation problems, they would have been solved a long time ago.
April 25, 2016
3:00AM
The recent federal budget paints a gloomy misleading picture of Canadian society.
March 23, 2014
3:00AM
President Obama has frequently cited the seemingly intractable debate about the size of government currently consuming the political class as his primary obstacle to getting major reforms through a divided Congress.
For example, in his State of the Union address he said:
January 31, 2014
2:00AM
In the land of government plenty that vast landscape populated with the tax dollars of Canadians there is no shortage of politicians willing to hand out and defend subsidies to business and no dearth of corporations willing to take the cash.