UBC researchers are available to provide analysis on a variety of topics related to the 2015 federal budget, to be announced April 21.
Economics
Kevin Milligan
UBC’s Vancouver School of Economics
Email: kevin.milligan@ubc.ca (email to arrange interviews)
Twitter: @kevinmilligan
- What the budget means for Canada and B.C.
- Personal income taxes
- Pensions and old-age security
Thomas Davidoff
Sauder School of Business
Office: 604-822-8325
Email: thomas.davidoff@sauder.ubc.ca
- Housing and household finance
Ross Hickey
Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, UBC Okanagan
Tel: 250-807-8653
Email: ross.hickey@ubc.ca
Twitter: @RossatronHickey
- Taxation, lobbying, and charitable giving
Families
Paul Kershaw
School of Population and Public Health
Tel: 604.827.5393 OR 604.761.4583
Email: paul.kershaw@ubc.ca
Twitter: @gensqueeze
- How the budget relates to families
- Government spending and generational inequality
- Health care and retirement spending increases
Environment
Kai Chan
Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
Tel: 604.822.0400
Email: kaichan@ires.ubc.ca
Twitter: @KaiChanUBC
- Environmental policy
- Climate change and ecosystems
Health care
Steve Morgan
School of Population and Public Health
Tel: 604.822.7012
Email: steve.morgan@ubc.ca
- National pharmacare program
- Health care and health expenditures
Politics
Wolfgang Depner
Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, UBC Okanagan
Tel: 250.807.8081
Email: wolfgang.depner@ubc.ca
Twitter: @wolfgang_depner
- Canadian politics, elections, parliamentary effectiveness, political legitimacy, political economy
Richard Johnston
Canada Research Chair in Public Opinion, Elections, and Representation
Department of Political Science
Tel: 604 822 5456
Cell: 778 387 3425
Email: richard.johnston@ubc.ca