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 [...]
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 [...]
So, Minister of Finance Flaherty thinks there’s a housing bubble brewing in Canada and it’s time to stick the needle in it before it’s too late. So he is asking Canada’s banks to require prospective home owners to put down a whopping 20 percent down-payment on government backed mortgages, and put them through a ‘stress [...]
Today Ken Hughes, Chair of Alberta Health Services (AHS) “Superboard” said Alberta was at a health care “watershed” in a speech delivered to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce. After over two years of planning and preparation, AHS is now implementing a plan that will reduce wait times and increase access for Albertans.
Armed with an $800 [...]
A couple of takeaways from President Obama’s speech last night:
First on climate change. With a nod to his opponents, Obama argued that while there is serious disagreement on the science, working on clean energy is still good policy. As he put it, “even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficiency and clean energy [...]
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