David Macdonald

Senior Economist, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @CCPA
For the lawyers: Opinions expressed on twitter are my own. RTs are not endorsements.

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

Pretty interesting to see that HALF of all econo activity in Canada is just gvts providing health care, education, infrastructure, seniors pensions. Other half is the private sector selling things. Cuts to govts are cuts to GDP growth...shocking ;) @ccpa
https://t.co/ec4xEONTvQ

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

@ccpa Great coverage on my new analysis looking at programs at real risk due to federal cuts. Here's the full analysis: https://t.co/V9yigPkt3G

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

Budget are about choices. We don't have to choose these cuts, we can choose to invest in Canadian priorities instead. Today our Alternative Federal Budget includes 100s of costed programs we should be choosing: https://t.co/NHFjbYddCL 7/x

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

Budgets are meant to be good news docs. This one will downplay all that will be lost with 15% cuts in most depts. We've scoured dept docs to identify programs likely to be "sunset" and the 52 depts likely to use this strategy @ccpa 🧵👇👇👇

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

Read the full details about what we'll be losing: https://t.co/V9yigPkt3G 6/x

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

Read the full report here: https://t.co/c5Gl9tjxjp

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

Canada’s $10-a-day #childcare program is cutting fees—but is it creating enough spaces? My new report from @ccpa shows big promises, mixed results, and a growing role for for-profit care. Here’s what the data tells us🧵👇👇👇

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

Now that fees are falling fast, the real challenge is space creation. Without strong public planning, for-profits will keep expanding in the easiest places—not where kids actually live. We need more proactive planning to hit the targets and do it with non-profit spaces. (8/10)

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

So the point is that this will be a mindless chainsaw through services that Canadians rely on. All in trade for more defense spending and a tax cut. These are Trump-approved priorities when we need Canadian priorities. Here's the full analysis: 8/x https://t.co/f6LGcSAoWF

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

Now calculated potential staffing cuts from the fed public sector cuts announced in July. TLDR, they'll be big, probably over 57,000 by 2028-29. I got some good coverage in the @OttawaCitizen but here are the brief details🧵👇👇 @ccpa

[David Macdonald @DavidMacCdn]

While the service impacts will be country-wide the employment impacts will be biggest in #ottawa and #gatineau where over 24,000 jobs could be lost by 2028. Here's the projected impact by region 7/x