Effective spending rules would result in balanced federal budget by 2025/26, even with COVID emergency relief

Tax and Expenditure Limitations for Canada’s Federal Government: A Primer

, --November 24, 2021

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VANCOUVER—If the federal government had introduced even a modest rule imposing more discipline on the growth in government spending starting in 2015—even one that allowed for all the COVID emergency spending—the federal budget could have been balanced by 2025/26, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.

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