Economist Stephen Gordon unpacks the federal government’s finances to explain why the deficit is so much bigger than Trudeau promised
We can’t read too much into a single quarter, but the period of weak growth and declining incomes appears to be over
With the budget, the Liberals have taken a page out of the Conservative plan for program expenditures. But there are many reasons to think it won’t work.
After 11 months of surpluses, Ottawa still says 2015 will end with an annual deficit. March will have to be a horrible month.
It’s both easier and harder than it seems, writes economist Stephen Gordon
Economist Stephen Gordon has studied Ottawa’s finances and sees a surplus for 2015-16. Are the Liberals playing ‘silly games’ with their deficit talk?
While it makes sense that weakened economic growth would lower government revenues, it’s getting harder to make that story fit the data
It will be easier for the Liberals to run on their plan of deficits if they can credibly claim they inherited one from the Conservatives. They can’t.
Q&A: Jean-Yves Duclos, former head of the economics department at Laval University and now minister of families, children and social development
Stephen Gordon explains what the paper examining the Quebec daycare program reveals, and the ensuing controversy
If Mulcair keeps his promises on the budget and the corporate tax rate, it’s unclear how an NDP government could avoid spending cuts
Are we in a recession? Will the Bank of Canada cut the interest rate again? Should it?