Event Location: Online

The Fraser Institute will release a new essay on Alberta entitled “Refining Alberta’s Equalization Gambit.” Call 604-688-0221 ext. 517. 

The Fraser Institute will release a new study, Should Upper-Income Canadians Pay More Income Tax, which spotlights the share of income tax paid by the top 10 per cent of income-earners in Canada, its growth over time, and the share of income earned by this group of Canadians. The study will be available online.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux will release a new report entitled “Evaluation of Election Proposal Costing 2019.” Details online. Call 613-992-8026.

The Bank of Canada will release the winter issue of the Business Outlook Survey and, for the first time, it will publish the results of the Canadian Survey of Consumer Expectations. Both publications will be available online. Call 613-782-8782.

The Bank of Canada will announce its decision on the target for the overnight rate. No briefing is scheduled. Details online.

The Parliamentary Budget Officer will release a new report: Economic and Fiscal Outlook – November 2019. Consistent with the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s legislated mandate, this report provides PBO’s economic and fiscal outlook. The report will be posted online.

The Fraser Institute will release a new study on the federal equalization program. Why Is Equalization Still Growing? spotlights the additional program costs for taxpayers—including those in “have” provinces such as Alberta and Saskatchewan—due the so-called “fixed growth rate” rule instituted in 2009. The report will be released online. 604-688-0221 x 517.

TVA and LCN will host the 2019 federal election edition of Face-à-Face, a French-language debate between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Papineau, Que.), Leader of the Liberal Party, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer (Regina–Qu’Appelle, Sask.), NDP leader Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, B.C.) and Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet. Pierre Bruneau will moderate the debate which will be broadcast on TVA, LCN … Read more

The Canadian Federation of Agriculture will host agriculture critics and leaders from each federal party for a debate. Participants include Liberal Party candidate Marie-Claude Bibeau (Compton–Stanstead, Que.), Green Party candidate Kate Storey (Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa, Man.), Conservative Party candidate Luc Berthold (Mégantic–L’Erable, Que.) and NDP candidate Alistair MacGregor (Cowichan-Malahat-Langford, B.C.). Debate questions will focus on economic growth, … Read more

Finance Canada will release its Annual Financial Report of the Government of Canada. The report summarizes the government’s financial results for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, including the budgetary balance. The department is also releasing updated Fiscal Reference Tables, which provide annual data on the financial position of the federal, provincial, territorial and local governments. Call 613-369-4000.