Today, Conservative Senator Nancy Ruth plans to revive her quest to gender-neutralize Canada’s national anthem by asking her caucus colleagues to replace the words “in all they sons command” with “in all thy daughters command” every time they sing Oh Canada from now until Easter. There’s a great story about Senator Ruth in today’s Toronto [...]
The communication preceding Ottawa’s modest belt tightening is now well underway. MPs have been told that they will see their salaries frozen. There were no free tickets for government MPs at the Olympics. The government is reducing by 10% the number of appointments to government boards and committees. Soon it will be macaroni and cheese [...]
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 [...]
Finance Minister Hon. Colin Hansen, unveiled the BC 2010/2011 Budget and Fiscal plan today in Victoria. Budget 2010 projects a deficit of $1.7 billion in 2010/11, and a return to fiscal balance by 2013/2014.
Today’s Budget marks a reversal of declining revenue growth. Revenue growth is expected to average 4.9% annually over the next three years. Projected [...]
Paul Rutherford of the QMI Agency had a great take on things when he wrote that it’s a good thing Canadians are laser-focused on the Olympics right now, or else they might have been more alarmed by the last comments from Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. The budget boss laid out a frightening [...]
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 [...]
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