
Seven things Canada could do with an ambitious federal budget in 2023
We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.
Ricardo Tranjan (he/him) is a political economist and senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Ontario office. Find him on Twitter at @ricardo_tranjan.
We’re not expecting many bells and whistles in this federal budget. It doesn’t need to be that way.
It bears repeating—properly funded public services do more to improve Ontarians' lives than deficit reduction.
For policy-makers, perhaps the most obvious lesson of the pandemic is that poverty, including child poverty, can be reduced much more quickly than Ontario has done in recent years. Timid policies that unfold incrementally over decades are of no use to children who will be grown up before we finally get around to taking action.
Ontario’s political rhetoric creates divisions where, in reality, none exist.
There is so much talk about housing insecurity in this country. Yet governments allow payday lenders to set up shop in neighbourhoods where high rents perpetuate financial insecurity.
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Minimum wage workers could ill-afford the cost of these lost wages.
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