Canada's governments have regularly missed budget spending and revenue targets during the last decade. Taken together …

C.D. Howe Institute report released today. In “Bending Canada’s Healthcare Cost Curve: Watch Not What Governments Say …

Each spring, Canada's federal, provincial and territorial legislatures vote budgets that set out their spending and … to voters and taxpayers. Over the last decade, however, Canada's senior governments have overshot their spending targets … expert reader. Our 2013 fiscal accountability survey of Canada's senior governments' evaluates the clarity and adherence to …

go higher for decades and even generations. The 2021 federal budget demonstrates the sensitivity and fragility of Canada …’s fiscal prospects. In this E-Brief, we explore further this fragility by testing the sensitivity of Canada’s simulated debt … “rolling the dice” on Canada’s future. No matter the answers to policy choices about taxes and spending in the years ahead, one …

debt. This paper reviews the budget rules recently legislated in six of Canada's provinces and both of its territories, as … well as budget rules in other OECD countries. In theory, budget rules appear to be justified if their cost in terms of …-rule legislation in Canada on fiscal performance, macroeconomic stabilization, and monetary policy …