Impulse Spending: Canada’s 2011 Fiscal Accountability Ranking
Total budget overruns for Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments amounted to $82 billion over the past decade, revealing a continuing lack of accountability to voters about budget promises, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Impulse Spending: Canada’s 2011 Fiscal Accountability Rankings,” authors Colin Busby and William Robson compare […] Beyond the Border and Back to the Future: Seizing the Opportunity to Enhance Canadian and US Economic Growth and Security
Canada and the United States face a rare window of opportunity to reduce security risks and foster more fruitful flows of commerce across their common border, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Beyond the Border and Back to the Future: Seizing the Opportunity to Enhance Canadian and US Economic […]A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Alternative Financing and Delivery of Water and Wastewater Services
Too many drinking water and wastewater systems across Canada threaten public health and the environment, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In A Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Alternative Financing and Delivery of Water and Wastewater Services, Elizabeth Brubaker reports that many of the municipally owned and operated systems that treat […]Safe Drinking Water Policy for Canada – Turning Hindsight into Foresight
A decade after the Walkerton and North Battleford drinking water outbreaks, much of Canada lags international leaders in adopting management systems for assuring safe drinking water, according to a study released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In Safe Drinking Water Policy for Canada – Turning Hindsight into Foresight author Steve E. Hrudey says that […]In Garbage Collection, Competition is Rarely Wasted: Globe and Mail Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on February 11, 2011
By Benjamin Dachis
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s announcement that he intends to contract out more of Toronto’s waste services is causing reverberations across Canada, not because what’s news in Toronto is news elsewhere, but because this could be the start of a rethinking of municipal waste services in city halls across the country.
Labour contracts in Toronto and Vancouver expire on Dec. 31 – in the last round, agreements in both cities were settled after strikes – and Calgary’s contract with its public employees expired a month ago. Contracting will be a major theme in these labour negotiations.
Most Canadian cities contract out their waste services. But in…