Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux will release a new report, “Cost Estimate of a GST Rebate on Residential Energy Use” providing an estimate of the removal of GST from home energy bills. The report will be released online. Call 613-992-8026.
The Bank of Canada will announce its decision on the target for the overnight rate. Call 613-782-8782.
The Fraser Institute will release a new study, “How Albertans Continue to keep Federal Finances Afloat,” which spotlights the amount Albertans contribute to Canada compared to their counterparts in other provinces, and reveals what federal finances (including recent budget deficits) would look like without Alberta’s financial contributions. The study will be available online. Call 604-688-0221 x 589.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer will post a new report entitled Costs Associated with Replacing the Federal Pay System. This report provides an independent estimate of the cost of replacing the Phoenix pay system, the current payroll processing system for federal public servants. Call 613-992-8026.
The Fraser Institute will release a new study on Canada’s lack of pipeline capacity. The Cost of Pipeline Constraints in Canada, 2019 reveals how much the country’s energy sector lost in forgone revenues last year due to the pipeline shortage. Call 604-688-0221 x 517.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer will post a new report entitled Costing Budget 2019 Measures. Consistent with the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s legislated mandate, this report provides independent cost estimates of several measures announced in the Budget 2019. Call 613-992-8026.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer will publish a new report: The Government’s Expenditure Plan and Main Estimates for 2019-20. This note examines the federal government’s Expenditure Plan and Main Estimates for 2019-20, which supports the second appropriation bill that will seek Parliament’s approval of $125.7 billion. The report will be available online. Call 613-992-8026.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer will publish two new reports: Fiscal and Distributional Analysis of the Federal Carbon Pricing System and Cost Estimate for Implementing Structured Intervention Units as set out in Bill C-83 and Related Proposals. The reports will be available online. Call 613-992-8026.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer will post a new report entitled Revisiting the Middle Class Tax Cut. This report estimates the fiscal cost of the middle class tax cut in tax years 2015 and 2016. PBO’s new approach accounts for the effects of income forestalling/unwinding and provides estimates based on counterfactual scenarios that employ recent historical data … Read more
The Fraser Institute will release a new study, Examining Federal Debt in Canada by Prime Minister Since Confederation, which tracks the debt records of every prime minister—how much they increased or decreased the federal debt, after accounting for inflation and population changes. The release will be available online.
