Media & Commentary
Press Review 2017
January 2017
Aging demographics limit long-term growth to 1.6% (BNN)
Randall Bartlett, chief economist at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, tells BNN long-term growth in Canada is limited to an average of 1.6 per cent due to aging demographics, and breaks down the IFSD's five-year outlook for Canadian and U.S. growth.
January 5
Is Canada's financial future filled with deficits? (CTV News)
Former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page weighs in on the deficit, Nik Nanos shares poll findings on Trump, tariffs and NAFTA.
January 3
As economic uncertainty goes up, government transparency on fiscal policy is going down (Ottawa Citizen)
Ying Xue Xiang is an Ottawa University undergraduate economics student. Kevin Page, of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, at UOttawa, is Canada’s former Parliamentary Budget Officer.
Other Press Archives
December 2016
Our leaders need to offer Canadians a new vision for health care (The Globe and Mail)
Power and Politics (CBC)
Provinces irate over health funding talks with Morneau (The Globe and Mail)
75 charts every Canadian should watch in 2017 (Maclean's)
Time for a health care renaissance (iPolitics)
September 2016
Ottawa must bolster tracking of infrastructure dollars to maintain public trust: ex-PBO (Hill Times)
August 2016
Justin Trudeau's Olympic-sized job problem (Maclean's)
F-35, the aircraft Trudeau said is ‘far from working,’ now declared ready for combat by U.S. Air Force (National Post)
July 2016
We need health care and innovation, tied together by sustainable finances (The Globe and Mail)
Also appeared in 1 other news outlet
Parliamentary budget office pushes for more power to scrutinize spending (CBC News)
John Ivison: Trudeau mulls plan to give budget watchdog teeth but it could come back to bite Liberals (National Post)
We need health care and innovation, tied together by sustainable finances (The Globe and Mail)
Also appeared in 1 other news outlet
June 2016
Expanded CPP could cut federal tax revenue, according to some estimates (The Globe and Mail)
Keeping Up With The Fruit Fly Guy (Canadian Content)
May 2016
@Kady's Watchlist for May 25 - CANSEC 2016 hits the capital as ministers hit the road (Ottawa Citizen)
Baloney Meter: Did the federal Liberals inherit a $7.5 billion surplus? (CBC News)
Also appeared in 57 other news outlets
April 2016
Solomon: Grading Trudeau's first half year in office (Maclean's)
A referendum on electoral reform? EKOS finds the Canadian public evenly split (iPolitics)
Liberals have in some respects 'lost ground on fiscal transparency,' says former PBO Page (Hill Times)
Bill Morneau disagrees with PBO report that budget was not 'fully transparent' (CBC News)
Monsef introduces eight principles that will guide electoral reform (iPolitics)
Kaitlin Szacki and Jennifer Winter: Alberta carbon tax done right should translate to tax cuts (Edmonton Journal)
Liberals talk about curbing tax giveaways. Good luck with that (CBC News)
March 2016
Tax collectors pressed to find more tax-haven and tax-arrears money (CBC News)
Also appeared in 2 other news outlets
The big 7: 2016 federal budget items that matter to Ottawa (CBC News)
Ottawa forecasts $29.4B deficit — with lots more red ink to come (CBC News)
Also appeared in 2 other news outlets
Fact check: Did the Harper government remove First Nations education money? (CTV News)
Also appeared in 32 other news outlets
National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy (Maritime Security Asia)
U of O wins big for first think tank of its kind in Canada (The Fulcrum)
February 2016
'Better late than never:' Kevin Page praises release of budget cut details (iPolitics)
No plans to undo Conservative cuts to military spending, says Sajjan (Maclean's)
Also appeared in 2 other news outlets
Years later, Page gets a partial picture of Harper budget cuts (iPolitics)
John Ivison: Liberal infrastructure plan may not be sexy, but it's sensible (National Post)
January 2016
Infrastructure spending: Let's do it right (The Globe and Mail)