The Board of Directors and Staff of the C.D. Howe Institute mourn the passing of Robert D. Brown, who chaired the Institute’s Board from June 1997 through 1999, and subsequently was an Honorary Director.
He was an exemplary supporter of the Institute, deeply engaged in its policy work and passionate about its mission.
Bob Brown was a founding member of the Institute’s Fiscal and Tax Competitiveness Council, which he co-chaired from its creation in 2005 through 2011. As a former Chair of Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP), a past Chair of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Canadian Tax Foundation, and a former Clifford Clark Visiting Economist to the Department of Finance, he was a critical intellectual supporter of the Institute’s work, and a consistent champion of effective and efficient spending and tax programs.
He co-authored the Institute’s study On Taxes and Foreign Investment, Flaherty’s Aim is Off (with Finn Poschmann) and edited the Institute’s 2002 book, Canadian Conundrums: Views from the Clifford Clark Visiting Economists.
We offer our sympathy to his family and friends, and express our profound gratitude for his contributions.