Chrystia Freeland tabling the Fall Economic Statement on Nov. 21, 2023/Adam Scotti

Budget 2024 will be delivered by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on April 16. 

With many thanks to all our contributors, here is our Policy Online Budget 2024 Preview Series.

We have three pieces from former Parliamentary Budget Officer and current Institute for Fiscal Studies and Democracy President Kevin Page, who has instituted the generous generational policy of sharing bylines with his very smart University of Ottawa students.

Here are Yasmine Hadid and Kevin Page with The State of the Nation’s Finances, Hunter Vanderlaan and Kevin Page with Policymaking in a Slow/no Growth Economy and Kevin, Yasmine and Hunter with Charting Spending Under the Liberal Government.

With their expert take on growth as a factor in the budget calculations, here are former Privy Council clerk and former BMO Financial Group Chair Kevin Lynch, and former White House economic aide Paul Deegan with Time for the Long View. Also from Lynch and Deegan, here’s Plotting a Return to Canadian Competitiveness.

From our Emerging Voices section, which highlights the work of talented students working on public policy issues, we have two pieces. From Leah Brodovsky, a Master of Public Policy candidate at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, here’s Budget 2024: Canadians Need a National Flood Insurance Program. And from fellow Max Bell MPP candidate Adrita Rachman, here’s Canada Doesn’t Have a Citizens Budget. It Should.

Enjoy the series and thank you, as always, for reading Policy.

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