The Sir Robert Bond Papers

Politicians are usually very careful about the words they use. That’s why it’s important to notice the words Premier Dwight Ball used this...

Yet another academic paper emerged on Tuesday that pointed out that the provincial government has a big financial problem caused by followi...

The provincial government has a very serious financial problem.  The forecast deficit for the current year is the second highest on record...

Provincial revenue from oil will be $791 million less than forecast in the spring budget, according to the provincial budget update . A fe...

Putting a freeze on any discretionary spending is the very least that the provincial government could do in light of the dramatic – but ent...

Lots of people are wondering what the changes to the price of oil will do to the provincial budget. It will have an impact:  no doubt abou...

Finance minister Tom Marshall will present his mid-year financial update on Monday.  It is supposed to be a way of bringing everyone up to d...

What is it about the provincial Conservatives and income tax? Kathy Dunderdale rabbited on about it last fall and again in January . La...

_______________________________________________ This is the third in a four part series on the current financial crisis the provincia...

_______________________________________________ This is the second in a four part series that offers an interpretation of the current...

______________________________________________ Over the next four days, SRBP will offer an interpretation of the political underpinni...

The provincial Conservatives love to spend public money.  That doesn’t sound very conservative and it isn’t.  Politically, the provincial ...

About two thirds of the people in the province who file tax returns earn less than $35,000 a year before taxes. It’s the kind of detail th...

[ Stick to your Lane Update:  See bottom] No surprise that on the day after natural resources minister Jerome Kennedy talked about looming...

Jerome Kennedy told reporters on Wednesday that  he and his officials are forecasting that the provincial government will rack up almost $4...

The Premier, the finance minister, and their favourite economist are talking about tax increases, layoffs, and spending cuts. They are tal...

“Muskrat Falls is a project that will not impact net debt by a single dollar,” finance minister Tom Marshall said in a provincial government...

As part of the orchestrated campaign to attack the people making the comments instead of the comments themselves , finance minister Tom Mars...

Via labradore , a chart that plots Conservative unsustainable public spending since 2003 with recently announced controls on discretionary s...

In the wake of the latest revelations of financial mismanagement in the provincial government, SRBP has been looking at some of the possib...