Tammy Schirle – Ministerial Mandate Letter: Minister of Women and Gender Equality
From: Tammy Schirle To: The incoming Minister of Women and Gender Equality (formerly Status of Women Canada.) Date: October 22 2019 As minister, your overarching goal will be to advance gender equality in Canada’s economic, social, and political life. You are responsible for taking a leadership role in the government-wide implementation of Gender-based Analysis Plus, an analytical process […] The Global Refugee Crisis Persists – The Business Community Can Help – Globe And Mail Op-ed
The refugee crisis and its global dimension continues as a major challenge for the international community. In our hemisphere alone, the United Nations estimates a staggering 5.4 million forcibly displaced Venezuelans by the end of 2019.
All of this serves as an urgent reminder that intergovernmental action is needed to address the crisis, not just in our own neighbourhood, but in other parts of the globe where refugees continue to flood across borders.
While collective intergovernmental action is needed for long-term solutions, there are important ways for the business community to be engaged as an important companion to state action.
Such private-sector initiatives would help to foster commercial activity and…
Parisa Mahboubi – Canada Must Put Emphasis on Economic Immigration
Today, we revisit an Intelligence Memo that remains relevant. From: Parisa Mahboubi To: Ahmed D. Hussen, Minister of Immigration and Simon Jolin-Barrette, Quebec Immigration Minister Date: August 21, 2019 Re: Canada Must Put Emphasis on Economic Immigration Immigration is not the panacea, as often advertised, to an aging population and low fertility rates. However, the right economic immigration inflow enhances employment […] Parisa Mahboubi – No, Immigrants Aren’t Stealing Jobs
From: Parisa Mahboubi To: Canadians concerned about immigration Date: June 12, 2019 Re: No, immigrants aren’t stealing jobs Canada is becoming increasingly reliant on immigration for its labour-force growth, which in turn is a key component of economic prosperity. However, not all Canadians may be aware of immigration’s beneficial impact. Understanding it better may shed light on debates over […] The economic case for more immigration – Globe and Mail Op-Ed
Canada is becoming increasingly reliant on immigration for its labour-force growth, which in turn is a key component of economic prosperity. However, not all Canadians may be aware of this beneficial impact of immigration. Understanding it better may shed light on debates over the country’s immigration policy.
Because of rapid population aging over the past decade, the labour force is shrinking as a percentage of the population, as the rate of participation of Canadians in the work force drops sharply past the age of 64. In order to mitigate the negative impacts of this demographic change on the economy and government finances, the federal government has been raising Canada’s annual immigration intake.
While high…
Canada must put the emphasis on economic immigration – Globe and Mail Op-Ed
Immigration is not the panacea, as often advertised, to an aging population and low fertility rates. However, the right economic immigration inflow enhances employment outcomes and strengthens the overall economy.
Principal applicants selected under the economic immigration program integrate well into the labour market. But their immediate families do not. Overall, this means that, across all categories, most new immigrants struggle in the labour market after their arrival. One way to encourage better outcomes is to substantially increase the target for economic immigration.
Ottawa has increased annual immigration targets, gradually moving up from 280,000 in 2016 to 350,000 by 2021. Canada admits these…
Canada’s Youngest Generations Bear The Largest Tax Burden – Globe And Mail Op-ed
We already know that Canada’s population aging will drag down government revenue and blow up social and health spending, but its long-term impact on fiscal sustainability and intergenerational fairness greatly depend on future government policies. While this demographic change substantially shifts the tax burden away from baby boomers and their children − the baby busters or Generation X – to the boomers’ grandchildren, achieving long-term fiscal sustainability can be possible.
In my recent study for the C.D. Howe Institute, I estimate average lifetime tax burdens for the current generations by birth cohort, and for an unborn future generation. Lifetime tax burdens are simply the total amount of taxes minus cash…
Young Generations Doing the Heavy Lifting: Lifetime Taxes and Benefits by Birth Year
In this edition of Graphic Intelligence, we show how the estimated lifetime taxes and lifetime benefits vary by birth year. The amounts of lifetime taxes paid and benefits received from birth to death are increasingly higher for the younger generations, born after the mid-1995. Since the gap between lifetime taxes and benefits increases for the youngest […]How Do Government Taxes and Transfers Affect You? It Depends on Your Age.
In this edition of Graphic Intelligence, we show how the average amount of taxes paid and benefits received differ by age group. Individuals pay and receive various types of taxes and benefits over the course of their lives. Taxes and contributions (e.g., EI and CPP contributions) are highest for those in the working-age category, particularly among […]Pursuing Reconciliation: The Case for an Off-Reserve Urban Agenda
Current reconciliation efforts between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples are missing the main target, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Pursuing Reconciliation: The Case for an Off-Reserve Urban Agenda,” author John Richards argues that the federal government, provinces, and Indigenous leaders must develop an agenda for the majority of First Nation people […] Parisa Mahboubi – The benefits of encouraging greater labour force participation of older workers
Federal budgets are an annual rite of spring in Ottawa, as is the deluge of advice to the Department of Finance. But budget-making is a yearlong process, and the work is now in progress. Accordingly, the C.D. Howe Institute is presenting a series of Intelligence Memos in the next few weeks, outlining recommendations that we […] Parisa Mahboubi – How to speed labour market integration of immigrants and refugees
Federal budgets are an annual rite of spring in Ottawa, as is the deluge of advice to the Department of Finance. But budget-making is a yearlong process, and the work is now in progress. Accordingly, the C.D. Howe Institute is presenting a series of Intelligence Memos in the next few weeks, outlining recommendations that we […]