Jim Flaherty

Peter Devries, the former director of the fiscal policy division in the Department of Finance, dissects Jim Flaherty’s latest...

As Aaron point out, the Conservative platform released today contains $1 billion in the first year, rising to $4 billion in the...

So the Harper government now promises that, if reelected, it will balance the budget in 2014-2015. This promise is based on cuts...

Andrew Coyne on why an election call should be about bold proposals and restoring democracy, not some trivial sums in a budget

Paul Wells on how a snoozer budget became the pretext for an election frenzy

From the Finance Minister’s news conference during yesterday’s lock-up, in response to questions about whether the budget had met...

Stephen Gordon critiques the boutique budget. John Geddes reviews the budget in print and video . Canadian Business consults...

Strangely, the budget that set a likely election in motion is a cautious document

Jack Layton waited until the budget was public before pulling the plug on the 40th Parliament

Sometime shortly after 4pm, just in time for the release of the federal budget, our blog platform crashed. Shortly after...