The Parliamentary Budget Officer posted a new report entitled “The Fiscal Cost of Indexing the Canada Child Benefit”. This report provides an update to the report Fiscal Analysis of Federal Children’s Benefits, estimating the cost of indexation if the first year of indexation were to occur in 2020. The report is available online. Call 613-992-8026.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer posted a new report entitled “Household Formation and the Housing Stock – A Stock-Flow Perspective”. This report provides estimates of household formation and the housing stock in Canada, and also attempts to gauge the degree of balance in the housing sector, both for new housing units and for the overall housing stock. … Read more
The Parliamentary Budget Officer posted a new report entitled “Federal Spending on Primary and Secondary Education on First Nations Reserves”. This report analyzes federal spending on elementary and secondary education for students living on First Nations reserves. It examines the evolution of spending over the past decade and analyzes how funds were allocated and how these allocations … Read more
The Parliamentary Budget Officer posted a new report entitled “Considerations for Parliament in Reforming the Business of Supply”. This report outlines considerations for parliamentarians regarding the Government’s proposals to reform the Business of Supply. The report is available online. Call 613-992-8026.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer posted a new report entitled “Supplementary Estimates (B) 2016-17”. This note presents detailed analysis of the second supplement to the Government’s Main Estimates for the 2016-17 fiscal year. The report is available online.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer posted a new report entitled “Legalized Cannabis: Fiscal Considerations”. This report provides a forecast of the economic parameters in the cannabis market, including the number of users, aggregate consumption and product prices. It also provides an overview of potential revenues that could arise from legal cannabis sales, based on existing and projected market data, as well as … Read more
The Parliamentary Budget Officer posted a new report entitled “Labour Market Assessment 2016”. This report provides parliamentarians with an assessment of the state of the Canadian labour market. It examines national labour market indicators relative to their trend estimates, that is, the level that would be observed if cyclical fluctuations were removed. PBO also analyses how provincial, … Read more
The Parliamentary Budget Officer posted a new report entitled “Economic and Fiscal Outlook October 2016”. This report responds to the 4 February 2016 Standing Committee on Finance motion. It incorporates data available up to and including 14 October 2016. The full report is available online. Call 613-992-8026.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Jean-Denis Fréchette published a new report entitled Expenditure Monitor 2016-2017 Q1. This note analyses the implementation of the Government’s spending plan presented in Budget 2016 for the first three months of the fiscal year. The full report is available online. Call 613-992-8026.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer published a new report, Fiscal Analysis of Federal Children’s Benefits which examines the net fiscal impact of implementing the new system of children’s benefits, and simultaneously repealing the federal portions of the old system. The report also provides a 10-year projection comparing the new system and the old, as well as a … Read more
