Sand Dollars
Budget, Government spending, It's Your GovernmentWhere do fish keep their money? Try a river bank. But if it’s government money, well, that’s guaranteed to be swallowed up hook, line and sinker.
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It’s Your Wallet – Federal Spending
Budget, Government spending, It's Your GovernmentJohn Robson explains how much money the federal government spends every single day of the year.
Who’s Auditing the Auditor?
Accountability, Budget, Government spending, It's Your GovernmentJohn Robson speaks to Canada’s current Auditor General, Sheila Fraser.
Counting the Ice
Accountability, Budget, Government spending, History, It's Your GovernmentHost John Robson explores the office of Auditor General.
Auditing the Auditor
Accountability, Budget, Government spending, It's Your GovernmentWho better to ask if we’re getting a ‘bang for our federal bucks’ than Canada’s Auditor General? IYG blows a little dust of some of the early books and discovers that even the cost of ice was once accounted for. Now fast forward to today’s complicated performance and financial audits. How does Sheila Fraser do it?
It’s Your Wallet
Budget, Government spending, It's Your GovernmentJohn Robson explains what happens to your tax dollars.
IYP – Subsidies
Government spending, It's Your Government, Politics, SubsidiesJohn Robson explains the business of farm subsidies. RUN 1:34
Why we have business subsidies
Days of Reckoning, Government spending, Job creation, Politics, SubsidiesCatherine Swift and Charles McMillan discuss the politics and consequences of business subsidies. From Days of Reckoning.
The costs of “cheap” electricity
Accountability, Days of Reckoning, Government spending, Hydro, Infrastructure, PoliticsLarry Solomon, Stephen Probyn and Ian Baines discuss the costs of producing “cheap” electricity in Ontario. From Days of Reckoning.
Are these jobs real?
Days of Reckoning, Government spending, Job creation, Politics, Regional developmentDonald Savoie explains how regional development took off on the 1980s. From Days of Reckoning.