Finance Canada – PP+G REVIEW

What the Heck is a Supercluster?: PPGR’S 2017 Budget Brief – March 29, 2017

Good morning subscribers! One week on, the dust may have settled around the Trudeau government’s “Innovation Budget,” but that doesn’t mean the pundits’ takes have cooled off. For the past seven days, we’ve read opinion pieces from Tofino, BC to Truro, NS – 28.4 billion of them – on what’s included, what’s left out, and…

What Budget 2017 means for young Canadians

Natalie Brunet & Caleb Holden Last March, a careful listener might have been able to pick out the collective sigh of Canadian youth as they realized that the Trudeau Government’s first budget – touted as his chance to deliver on the many promises in the Liberal platform directed at 18-24 year olds – had come…

Transit and Tax Credits: A Lesson in Preparing Your Audience

Jonathan Kates Immediately following the release of Budget 2017, I found myself caught up in a whirlwind of opposing viewpoints thanks to the Liberal government’s discontinuation of the Public Transit Tax Credit (PTTC). Normally, I would welcome such discussion, but in this case, it quickly became apparent that members were sorting themselves into two groups….