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Making Sense of City Budgets: Grading the Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Municipalities, 2025

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By William Robson, Nicholas Liban Dahir
| The CDHI Podcast
Citation Robson, William B.P., and Nicholas Dahir. 2026. Making Sense of City Budgets: Grading the Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Municipalities, 2025. Commentary 719. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute.
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Ottawa’s Perverse Guardrail Fallacy

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By Don Drummond, William Robson, Nicholas Liban Dahir
| The CDHI Podcast
Citation Drummond, Don, and Robson, William B.P., and Nicholas Dahir. 2026. Ottawa’s Perverse Guardrail Fallacy  . Intelligence Memos. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute.
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Ottawa’s fiscal guardrail is driving us toward the cliff

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By Don Drummond, William Robson, Nicholas Liban Dahir
| The CDHI Podcast
In its 2020 and 2021 budget and updates, Ottawa talked a lot about “fiscal guardrails,” a term that met with much derision. Hard targets like a balanced budget or a dollar reduction in total spending are clear commitments a government can be held to account for (which, of course, governments usually prefer to avoid). A “guardrail” is vaguer — implying safety, even if the driver is careless.
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