Commentary
This post is the first of a regular series coming to Finances of the Nation which will serve to aggregate selected current research from think tanks, journals and other relevant sources relating to the Finances of the Nation project. This installation covers the federal government’s Economic and Fiscal Snapshot, Alberta’s…
How do governments manage fiscal planning amid the unpredictable health and economic effects of a deadly pandemic?
By: Julie S. Gosselin, Luc Godbout, Tommy Gagné-Dubé, Suzie St-CernyChaire en fiscalité et en finances publiquesUniversité de Sherbrooke This post summarizes the article recently prepared for Finances of the Nation by Gosselin et al. on economic responses to the Covid-19 pandemic crisis by governments in Canada. The COVID-19 pandemic, first…
Municipal police budgets have been rising steadily in most major cities for many years, despite stable police employment and declining crime rates, and the average big-city resident pays $390 annually for the municipal police operating budget. The exception is Toronto, where police employment and per capita spending have been declining…
Finances of the Nation is a new effort by academic researchers, in partnership with the Canadian Tax Foundation, to assemble Canadian public finance data and make it available to researchers, journalists, students, and the general public. Good research on public policy starts with good data. Public policy analysis in Canada…
