Back to the Future? Canada’s Auto Strategy The Trump administration’s auto tariffs threaten Canada’s internationally competitive vehicle manufacturing sector, encouraging production to shift south, causing inefficiencies and damaging North American competitiveness. This report proposes a modernized Auto Pact that would allow tariff-free vehicle imports from countries with which Canada does not have a free trade […]
To: Canadians concerned about prosperityFrom: Martin EichenbaumDate: May 5, 2025Re: Trump has Given Us a Generational Talent Opportunity. Let’s Seize It. Canadians often complain that many of our brightest stars move south. The list of distinguished expats is long and impressive: Artists, academics, entrepreneurs, managers, athletes and more. The phrase “brain drain” is familiar to all of […]
Balancing Canada’s Population Growth and Ageing Through Immigration Policy Canada faces twin demographic pressures: an ageing population and rapid population growth driven by immigration. The report argues that immigration levels must strike a careful balance – sufficient to offset some effects of low fertility and an ageing workforce, but not so high as to outpace […]
May 1, 2025 – Canada cannot rely on immigration alone to address the challenges posed by its ageing population and relentless decline in fertility rates, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. Without a broader population strategy, rising immigration could fuel rapid growth while straining housing, healthcare, and infrastructure — without fully […]
April 22, 2025 – With a wave of Canadians staying in the workforce past age 65, employers need to improve long-term disability insurance (LTD insurance) to better reflect the needs of today’s workforce, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Rethinking Age-Cutoffs for Long-term Disability Insurance,” author Joe Nunes examines LTD insurance, which […]
The Study in Brief As more Canadians work past age 65 – due to longer life expectancy, the end of mandatory retirement, and the need or desire to keep working – rigid age cutoffs for long-term disability (LTD) insurance, typically set at 65, may be legally vulnerable. Although courts have upheld some age-based terminations of […]
From: John Richards and Tingting ZhangTo: Education watchersDate: April 9, 2025Re: Time to Address Canada’s Falling Math Scores Canada’s declining K-12 education system is sending out worrying warning signals. In the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Canadian students ranked in the top 10 among OECD countries. But that doesn’t mean all is well, and the most alarming signs are in mathematics. […]
Published in The Financial Post Canada’s declining K-12 education system is sending out worrying warning signals. In the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Canadian students ranked in the top 10 among OECD countries. But that doesn’t mean all is well, and the most alarming signs are in mathematics. Math was the only subject where Canada’s national average dropped […]
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting ZhangTo: Canadian economic observersDate: March 26, 2025Re: We Have More Workers. Now We Have to Invest in Them As trade tensions with the United States escalate, putting tens of thousands of Canadian jobs at risk, our home-grown productivity problem continues to erode the country’s economic strength. Without a change of strategy, Canada faces […]
In terms of national scores in reading, mathematics, and science among sampled students at age 15, Canada continues to rank among the top ten countries in the 2022 PISA survey. At first glance, one might conclude all is well. However, Canada’s national trends have consistently declined since initial benchmarking of the three subjects in the […]
March 25, 2025 – While Canadian students rank among the top ten in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), there is cause for concern. A new report from the C.D. Howe Institute finds that our students’ scores in reading, mathematics, and science have been consistently slipping since initial benchmarking in the early 2000s. In […]
From: Pierre FortinTo: Labour force observersDate: March 21, 2025Re: Why More Immigration Didn’t Solve Canada’s Labour Shortages From 2015 to 2023, the federal government allowed immigration levels to increase fivefold, mostly through a significant rise in temporary immigration. By the end of 2024, Canada had three million non-permanent residents, representing 7.3 percent of the country’s population […]
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Back to the Future? Canada’s Auto Strategy The Trump administration’s auto tariffs threaten Canada’s internationally competitive vehicle manufacturing sector, encouraging production to shift south, causing inefficiencies and damaging North American competitiveness. This report proposes a modernized Auto Pact that would allow tariff-free vehicle imports from countries with which Canada does not have a free trade […] 
To: Canadians concerned about prosperityFrom: Martin EichenbaumDate: May 5, 2025Re: Trump has Given Us a Generational Talent Opportunity. Let’s Seize It. Canadians often complain that many of our brightest stars move south. The list of distinguished expats is long and impressive: Artists, academics, entrepreneurs, managers, athletes and more. The phrase “brain drain” is familiar to all of […] 
Balancing Canada’s Population Growth and Ageing Through Immigration Policy Canada faces twin demographic pressures: an ageing population and rapid population growth driven by immigration. The report argues that immigration levels must strike a careful balance – sufficient to offset some effects of low fertility and an ageing workforce, but not so high as to outpace […] 
The Study in Brief As more Canadians work past age 65 – due to longer life expectancy, the end of mandatory retirement, and the need or desire to keep working – rigid age cutoffs for long-term disability (LTD) insurance, typically set at 65, may be legally vulnerable. Although courts have upheld some age-based terminations of […] 
From: John Richards and Tingting ZhangTo: Education watchersDate: April 9, 2025Re: Time to Address Canada’s Falling Math Scores Canada’s declining K-12 education system is sending out worrying warning signals. In the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Canadian students ranked in the top 10 among OECD countries. But that doesn’t mean all is well, and the most alarming signs are in mathematics. […] 
Published in The Financial Post Canada’s declining K-12 education system is sending out worrying warning signals. In the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), Canadian students ranked in the top 10 among OECD countries. But that doesn’t mean all is well, and the most alarming signs are in mathematics. Math was the only subject where Canada’s national average dropped […] 
From: Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting ZhangTo: Canadian economic observersDate: March 26, 2025Re: We Have More Workers. Now We Have to Invest in Them As trade tensions with the United States escalate, putting tens of thousands of Canadian jobs at risk, our home-grown productivity problem continues to erode the country’s economic strength. Without a change of strategy, Canada faces […] 
In terms of national scores in reading, mathematics, and science among sampled students at age 15, Canada continues to rank among the top ten countries in the 2022 PISA survey. At first glance, one might conclude all is well. However, Canada’s national trends have consistently declined since initial benchmarking of the three subjects in the […] 
From: Pierre FortinTo: Labour force observersDate: March 21, 2025Re: Why More Immigration Didn’t Solve Canada’s Labour Shortages From 2015 to 2023, the federal government allowed immigration levels to increase fivefold, mostly through a significant rise in temporary immigration. By the end of 2024, Canada had three million non-permanent residents, representing 7.3 percent of the country’s population […]