UBC researchers are available to provide analysis on a variety of issues related to the 2014 federal budget, to be announced February 11.
Politics
Gerald Baier
UBC Dept. of Political Science
Office: 604.827.5560
Email: gerald.baier@ubc.ca
Economics
Kevin Milligan
(Available for interviews on Feb. 12)
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
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
- Generational equity
- Retirement and health care spending
Health care
Kimberlyn McGrail
School of Population and Public Health
Phone: 778.998.3821
Email: kmcgrail@chspr.ubc.ca
- Health care financing
- Health care expenditures / expenditure growth
- Population aging and the health care system
Environment
John Richardson
Dept. of Forest and Conservation Sciences
Tel: 604.822.6586
Email: john.richardson@ubc.ca
- Wildlife and environmental regulations
- Regulation of waterways