April 7, 2011 — The C.D. Howe Institute’s Monetary Policy Council (MPC) today recommended that the Bank of Canada raise its target for the overnight interest rate, the very short-term money-market rate the Bank targets for monetary policy purposes, to 1.25 percent at its next announcement…
Read moreApril 6 – The amount Canadians spend on healthcare is set to rise rapidly over the next two decades and Canadians need to face up to tough choices to deal with this “spending disease,” according to a new C.D. Howe Institute study by David A. Dodge, former Governor of the Bank of Canada and…
Read moreMarch 23, 2011 – Members of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Fiscal and Tax Competitiveness Council today offered their scores on the 2011 federal budget tabled on March 22. For the key criteria listed below, the combined score is the simple average of their responses:
- Appropriateness…
C.D. Howe Institute Appoints Don Drummond as Co-Chair of the Fiscal and Tax Competitiveness Council
March 17, 2011 – William Robson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the C.D. Howe Institute, today announced the appointment of Donald Drummond as Co-Chair of the Institute's Fiscal and Tax Competitiveness Council, commencing in May 2011.
“Don is one of Canada’s pre-eminent…
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