Canadians to pay for governments' pandemic overspending with their tax dollars: report

Canada’s senior governments weren’t transparent enough about the additional $309 billion spent during the COVID-19 crisis, argues a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute, which calls for improvements to the budgeting process.

“The decisions that got made that are going to affect our future for years and decades to come, were really made on the fly without appropriate deliberation,” said Bill Robson, chief executive of the think-tank and co-author of the study, released July 11. “We need more transparency from our governments about how they’re spending our money, especially when something like COVID happens.” ---More...