Why the Liberals and NDP shouldn’t bank on having surpluses to spend
If you’re buying into Harper’s surpluses, you’re also buying into Harper’s austerity program
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Stephen Gordon
Stephen Gordon is an economics professor at l’Université Laval in Quebec City. He started the blog Worthwhile Canadian Initiative in 2005 and has been blogging about economics ever since.
Don’t fear the FIPA
Excitable nationalists and their wild imaginings about the Canada-China foreign-investment deal have led to all manner of silly arguments
Why the new EI tax credit could do more harm than good
Reducing payroll taxes, like EI premiums, is good policy. Too bad that’s not what the Harper government chose to do.
Are we better off with Harper?
A new Conservative ad says ’We’re better off with Harper.’ It’s an awful talking point, but here are the numbers to put the claim to the test.
The mystery behind Canada’s shrinking deficit
A fact check on the following: "The Government remains on track to balance the budget in 2015"
Breaking down the Quebec budget
Some welcome tax reforms, but government intervention in the market isn’t going away
Quebec’s austerity budget takes its cue from Ottawa
The aging workforce in Quebec means fewer people in the job market, and fewer people paying taxes
Where are Canada’s missing jobs?
The jobs recovery has not been even across the country or across different age groups
The mini-recession of 2012-13
Only when you look beyond the headline employment numbers will you see the extent to which confidence in the job market plummeted
Looking for the root causes of inequality in all the wrong places
Why the wage-productivity ’disconnect’ does not explain increased inequality