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Canada’s governments are lousy at budgeting, says report

Lorrie Goldstein  |  November 11, 2021

By Lorrie Goldstein, includes “Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial governments do a poor job of budgeting, leading to higher spending and taxes for Canadians, according to a new study by the C.D. Howe Institute. … The report said Canadian governments use numerous accounting tricks to manipulate their budgets in order to achieve these outcomes and hide financial losses, regardless of the true state of government finances. …  A previous C.D. Howe Institute report by the same authors in September gave the Trudeau government an ‘F’ for transparency for the 2020-21 fiscal year…”

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