This year the government plans to run a $9.8 billion deficit followed by a $4.6 billion deficit next year.
infrastructure
November 5, 2018
2:58PM
Ottawa and most provincial governments have failed to offer any significant de-regulatory strategy.
February 26, 2018
11:21AM
The Human Freedom Index tracks the evolution of freedom globally.
July 10, 2017
10:59AM
Conditional grants give the federal government greater sway over projects across Canada.
April 3, 2017
10:37AM
Ottawa’s so-called infrastructure spending plan includes $77 million to develop regulations for driverless cars and unmanned air vehicles.
March 1, 2017
8:56AM
Chromite deposit could spawn thousands of jobs for several decades of mining.
November 15, 2016
3:38PM
Only a small portion of infrastructure spending will go towards building more efficient transportation corridors.
April 5, 2016
2:58PM
Of the $4 billion earmarked for 2016/17, only $1.6 billion will go to public transit and other municipal infrastructure.
October 13, 2015
4:00AM
The need for infrastructure spending in Canada is getting a lot of attention this election, with all the parties presenting platform planks on the amounts they would spend.
March 25, 2015
9:00AM
Over the next two months, residents of Metro Vancouver will vote “Yes” or No” in a transit tax plebiscite, but the proposed tax hike to finance what are mostly public transit projects is at best questionable from a transportation economics perspective.