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1. The Cost of Government Debt in Canada, 2017

   Budget deficits and increasing debt are key fiscal issues as the federal and provincial governments prepare to release their budgets this year. Combined federal and provincial net debt has increased from $833 billion in 2007/08 to a projected $1.4 ...

2. The Cost of Government Debt in Canada, 2016

   Budget deficits and increasing debt are key fiscal issues as the federal and provincial governments prepare to release their budgets this year. Combined federal and provincial net debt has increased from $834 billion in 2007/08 to a projected $1.3 ...

3. Canadian Student Review: Summer 2016

     In this issue: Our Interest Fantasy by Brennan Sorge An argument for why today’s low interest rates could present long-term problems for Canadians. The Quote Wall Thomas Sowell Sowell on scarcity. FRASER FORUM BLOG POST How to make Vancouver more ...

4. Annual interest on Canada’s government debt translates into $7,000 for a family of four

   Appeared in the Financial Post, January 19, 2017 It’s easy to think that government debt doesn’t matter. A prime example is the surprising lack of widespread media coverage of the federal government’s recent long-term projections of its finances over the ...

5. The cost of government debt in Canada

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail, January 12, 2016 As a new year begins and Canadian governments prepare their budgets, it’s a good time to reflect on the state of government indebtedness in the country. Unfortunately, it’s not a pretty picture. Governments ...

6. Debt interest risks crowding out government spending on other priorities

   Appeared in the Regina Leader Post and Huffington Post, Aug 25, 2014 Canadian headlines about government deficits and debt can be dizzying and hard for people to grasp. A few billion here and several billion there and the natural response is for one’s ...

7. Canadians pay the price for mounting government debt

   Ontario will spend an estimated $13 billion on government debt interest costs in 2020/21. ...

8. Interest Costs and their Growing Burden on Canadians

   In recent years, deficit spending and growing government debt have become a trend for many Canadian governments. Like households, governments are required to pay interest on their debt. These interest payments consume resources that could have ...

9. The Cost of Government Debt in Canada

   A major theme of this year’s federal and various provincial budgets is continuing deficit spending and growing government debt. The result of recent deficits and debt accumulation is that the combined federal and provincial net debt has increased from ...

10. Troubled Waters for the Canadian Economy

    As Canadians start to worry more about the state of our economy, the Fraser Institute has assembled a series of studies and op-eds by our researchers that clarify many of the underlying policy problems that continue to encumber our economy. Resolving or ...