April 12, 2022
Stauffer-Dunning Fellow, Queen’s University and Fellow-in-Residence, C.D. Howe Institute
Don Drummond
Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute
William Robson
Join the Ottawa Economics Association for an exciting discussion on the state of Canada’s fiscal situation and outlook in the context of Budget 2022, featuring Don Drummond and Bill Robson.
In 2020, as part of the extraordinary stimulus measures, the federal government introduced fiscal guardrails to serve as a benchmark for when it should put the nation’s finances onto a more sustainable track. Budget 2021 downplayed those guardrails, and the 2021 Fall Update ignored them. The February 2022 Labour Force Survey confirmed that, under any reasonable definition, the guardrails have been hit. Yet the unfunded spending increases have continued, and more loom. In the context of the 2022 Federal Budget, Don Drummond and Bill Robson will discuss the importance of stronger economic growth over the long term, and putting the country on a more prudent fiscal path, and how federal fiscal policy needs to change.
Stauffer-Dunning Fellow, Queen’s University and Fellow-in-Residence, C.D. Howe Institute
Don Drummond
Don Drummond is Stauffer-Dunning Fellow, Queen’s University and Fellow-in-Residence, C.D. Howe Institute. He is former Chief Economist, TD Bank and Associate Deputy Minister Finance Canada. He chaired the Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services. He has honorary doctorates from the Queen’s University and the University of Victoria and is a member of the Order of Ontario.
Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute
William Robson
Bill Robson took office as President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute in July 2006, after serving as the Institute’s Senior Vice President since 2003 and Director of Research from 2000 to 2003. He has written more than 280 monographs, articles, chapters and books on such subjects as government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, inflation and currency issues. His work has won awards from the Policy Research Secretariat, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Donner Canadian Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College and holds an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. He is a member of the Panel of Senior Advisors to the Auditor General of Ontario and the ifo World Economic Survey expert group, and a regular commentator on BNN/Bloomberg. Bill taught undergraduate public finance and public policy at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2003, and a Master’s level course in public finance at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy from 2014 to 2019.
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