Media Releases

May 3, 2016 – Ottawa’s unfunded liabilities for employee pensions stood at $269 billion at the end of the 2015 fiscal year, far larger than reported, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute study. In “Worse Than It Looks: The True Burden and Risks of Federal Employee Pension Plans,” authors…

May 2, 2016 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the appointment of The Honourable Marshall Rothstein, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, to the Competition Policy Council.

“Justice Rothstein is one of Canada’s leading legal minds, with…

April 26, 2016 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, congratulates Daniel Trefler, Professor of Business Economics at the University of Toronto, for winning the Bank of Canada Fellowship Award.   

“Dan is widely recognized as an intellectual…

April 25, 2016 – William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the appointment of The Honourable Howard I. Wetston, former Chair & CEO of the Ontario Securities Commission, to the Competition Policy Council.

“Throughout his distinguished career, Howard has…