Christopher Ragan: Experience has shown that spending vast sums of public money on infrastructure both quickly and effectively is almost impossible
Bill Morneau’s ‘fiscal snapshot’ predicts a $343-billion deficit—nearly 16 per cent of the country’s annual GDP
Where the parties stand on the tricky question of an economy that’s booming, but has also left many Canadians feeling left behind
Jen Gerson: When you are seen to run a financially undisciplined nanny state, a pre-election spending spree is a bad idea
Opinion: As Alberta grapples with deficits, some claim the solution is higher taxes, but that misses the real problem: years of out of control spending
Even as big provinces tame their deficits, their debts are piling a huge burden on future generations
With little cash left in the kitty, and facing big deficits well into the future, a ‘do-nothing’ budget could be the best Canadians could have hoped for
Either Kevin O’Leary just doesn’t care enough to get it right, or he thinks there’s value in talking about Trudeau’s “trillion-dollar deficit”
With the economic update, it’s now clear Ottawa must run sizeable deficits for the foreseeable future
The deputy head of the IMF research department, Jonathan Ostry, on why countries with fiscal space to stimulate their economies ‘should not sweat the debt’
Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz comes to the defence of deficit spending and its effect on growth
The Liberals have already abandoned their balanced-budget pledge. Will they still be able to lower Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio by the end of their mandate?