8 March 2010
Can the Government Meet the Challenge of Program Review and Ensuring an Efficient Regulatory Approval System.
As Finance Minister Jim Flaherty knows, budgets are never easy. When times are good, a Finance Minister must manage the overwhelming expectations departments and stakeholders have for additional funding. When times are tough – like they are now – these same departments and stakeholders are manning the barricades against funding cuts. With the budget released [...]
Yesterday’s Speech from the Throne marked a significant change of direction for the Government. Less evident is the highly tactical, transactional focus of previous priority setting throne speeches, intended to appeal to various segments of the population. The government now seems to be signalling it is prepared to follow a longer term approach – some might argue a more visionary approach – as it unveils a longer term economic policy agenda.
Four o’clock today will indeed be the witching hour, when reporters, senior government officials, interest groups and associations, and the odd communications adviser or two, will emerge from a day-long “lock up” in Ottawa to release to Canadians details of the federal budget.
I really liked the way my old Washington colleague John Ibbitson summed up [...]
I’ve spent the last few days trying to find out where the Ontario Conservatives stand on pension reforms. I’m a bit surprised that I haven’t found much.
Pensions have been getting a lot of attention of late – Canada’s Finance ministers met in December in Whitehorse to talk about how best to encourage Canadians to save [...]
It is fitting that the weekend after the running of NASCAR’s Daytona 500, engines are revving up around Ottawa as Parliament prepares to return with a throne speech on March 3 and a budget on March 4.
Over the last few days, the NDP and Liberal caucuses have sent a list of their priorities to the [...]
With the Grammy Awards being handed out last Sunday in Los Angeles, it got me thinking, what are federal politicians listening to these days on their iPod or Zune during this time of prorogation? No doubt many are rocking out to Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers in the privacy of their own homes, but would [...]
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