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 …. While Ottawa and Ontario prepare their principal financial documents using the same basis of accounting, display the …

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 …. While Ottawa and Ontario prepare their principal financial documents using the same basis of accounting, display the …

never-ending task. This latest edition of the C.D. Howe Institute’s annual report on the fiscal accountability of Canada … revenues reported by Canada’s senior governments at the end of each fiscal year have tended to match the projections in the … territorial governments tend to overshoot their budget targets by large amounts. Over the decade, Canada’s senior governments …

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