The Hub Reacts to the 2024 federal budget
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled a federal budget yesterday that she insisted will deliver “fairness for every generation.”
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled a federal budget yesterday that she insisted will deliver “fairness for every generation.”
From the perspective of getting the underlying structure of Canada’s tax system right, increasing capital gains taxes made good sense.
In Norway, about 10 percent of people have private insurance. This makes the other 90 percent better off: fewer patients to serve means the public system can do more with the same.
All told, Iran’s attack on Israel is not simply an attack on the Jewish state. At its core, it is an attack on liberalism, on democracy, and on all that we stand for.
The Trudeau government has driven up government spending so high using deficit financing that it’s now saying we need to raise taxes in order to pay for its higher public expenditures.
Over the past near-decade, the Liberal government has steadily run up the bill on national program expenses year over year.
The budget comes in the midst of horrendous polling numbers for the Trudeau government. Through this fiscal blueprint, the Liberals are desperately trying to gain some of those potential voters back.
Iddo Moed, Israel’s ambassador to Canada, discusses Iran’s drone and missile attacks over the weekend and Israel’s possible response, the Israel Defense Force’s ongoing campaign to defeat Hamas, and his experiences in Canada over the past eight months.
In their wake, boomers have set policy traps that have systematically kneecapped future generations’ prospects, leaving behind a country of systems littered with economic landmines and lower living standards.
It’s no secret that it will be a big spending budget that will probably hit relatively upper-income earners and corporations with higher taxes while never targeting a balanced budget.
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