From: Don DrummondTo: Economy observersDate: September 15, 2025Re: Canada’s New Economic Model Should Begin with the Budget A trading nation, Canada lives next to what has long been a big welcoming market in a generally competitive free-trading world. That once free American market is fast being restricted by tariffs, for now made passably permeable by the […]
From: Mikal SkuterudTo: Labour Market WatchersDate: September 9, 2025Re: A Realistic Strategy to Wean Canadian Businesses Off Low-Skill Foreign Labour Uprooting one’s life to settle in a new country is always daunting, but it’s particularly unnerving when immigration rules are in constant flux. Attracting foreign talent requires a system that is stable, transparent, and predictable. […]
From: Lennie KaplanTo: Alberta fiscal observersDate: September 8, 2025Re: Transparency, please, for Alberta’s Productivity Review Cabinet Committee The work of the Alberta government’s “cost-cutting” cabinet committee, know as the Productivity Review Cabinet Committee (PRCC), continues to be kept out of main view, and the results of its activities should be disclosed to Albertans in the […]
From: Harvey NaglieTo: Productivity watchersDate: September 4, 2025Re: Move Now: A 12-Month Capacity Reset for Canada Canada’s longstanding policy playbook – add population, launch programs, and assume headline growth will translate into rising living standards – is no longer fit for purpose. The window to make changes is shrinking: Every year of delay worsens per-capita […]
From: Colin BusbyTo: Postal observers, and Treasury Board President Shafqat AliDate: August 18, 2025Re: The Canada Post Test for the Carney Efficiency Campaign The Carney government says it will spend less, invest more and make government more efficient. Its bold, new defence commitments mean that cuts to operational spending will need to be much wider […]
Like the 2008/09 financial crisis and recession a decade earlier, the COVID pandemic triggered a build-up of debt by Canadian households, nonfinancial corporations, the federal government and other (provincial and local) governments. After 2008/09, the debts of households, nonfinancial corporations and other governments tended to rise relative to GDP, while fiscal consolidation lowered the federal […]
From: Les VinerTo: Postal observersDate: August 6, 2025Re: It’s Time to Stop Canada’s Postal Bleeding Canada Post, which predates Confederation, is a vital national institution, playing a particularly important role in serving rural, Northern and Indigenous communities across our vast country. But today, Canada Post is effectively insolvent. Indeed, it would have run out of […]
Published in The Globe and Mail Canada Post, which predates Confederation, is a vital national institution, playing a particularly important role in serving rural, Northern and Indigenous communities across our vast country. But today, Canada Post is effectively insolvent. Indeed, it would have run out of cash had the government not recently extended a billion-dollar […]
From: Trevor Tombe To: Deficit observers Date: August 1, 2025Re: Confronting Canada’s Fiscal Future Canada’s pledge to spend 5 percent of GDP on defence, if acted upon, will come with potentially large fiscal costs. Following through will require either sustained deficits, tax increases, or difficult reductions in other areas of federal spending. More likely, it […]
Published in Financial Post By John Lester and Alex Laurin The federal government has promised a spending review aimed at limiting the growth in its operating spending, also known as direct program expenses, to two per cent a year. With the new NATO commitment to increase defence-related spending by over $100 billion a year by 2035, restraining non-defence […]
June 26, 2025 – Canadian auto insurance rate regulations, intended to protect consumers, are reducing necessary insurer agility – risking long-term competitiveness in the market, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “The Price of Over-Regulation: Assessing the Impact of Rate Controls on Auto Insurance Market Flexibility in Canada,” Gherardo Caracciolo finds […]
From: Nicholas Chesterley To: Prosperity watchers Date: June 20, 2025Re: Measure Everything That Matters, not Just GDP Discussions of national performance by governments, the media, and the public often focus on GDP, how much a country has produced in a year. They spend less time on national wealth – the total value of our national […]
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From: Don DrummondTo: Economy observersDate: September 15, 2025Re: Canada’s New Economic Model Should Begin with the Budget A trading nation, Canada lives next to what has long been a big welcoming market in a generally competitive free-trading world. That once free American market is fast being restricted by tariffs, for now made passably permeable by the […] 
From: Mikal SkuterudTo: Labour Market WatchersDate: September 9, 2025Re: A Realistic Strategy to Wean Canadian Businesses Off Low-Skill Foreign Labour Uprooting one’s life to settle in a new country is always daunting, but it’s particularly unnerving when immigration rules are in constant flux. Attracting foreign talent requires a system that is stable, transparent, and predictable. […] 
From: Lennie KaplanTo: Alberta fiscal observersDate: September 8, 2025Re: Transparency, please, for Alberta’s Productivity Review Cabinet Committee The work of the Alberta government’s “cost-cutting” cabinet committee, know as the Productivity Review Cabinet Committee (PRCC), continues to be kept out of main view, and the results of its activities should be disclosed to Albertans in the […] 
From: Harvey NaglieTo: Productivity watchersDate: September 4, 2025Re: Move Now: A 12-Month Capacity Reset for Canada Canada’s longstanding policy playbook – add population, launch programs, and assume headline growth will translate into rising living standards – is no longer fit for purpose. The window to make changes is shrinking: Every year of delay worsens per-capita […] 
From: Colin BusbyTo: Postal observers, and Treasury Board President Shafqat AliDate: August 18, 2025Re: The Canada Post Test for the Carney Efficiency Campaign The Carney government says it will spend less, invest more and make government more efficient. Its bold, new defence commitments mean that cuts to operational spending will need to be much wider […] 
Like the 2008/09 financial crisis and recession a decade earlier, the COVID pandemic triggered a build-up of debt by Canadian households, nonfinancial corporations, the federal government and other (provincial and local) governments. After 2008/09, the debts of households, nonfinancial corporations and other governments tended to rise relative to GDP, while fiscal consolidation lowered the federal […] 
From: Les VinerTo: Postal observersDate: August 6, 2025Re: It’s Time to Stop Canada’s Postal Bleeding Canada Post, which predates Confederation, is a vital national institution, playing a particularly important role in serving rural, Northern and Indigenous communities across our vast country. But today, Canada Post is effectively insolvent. Indeed, it would have run out of […] 
From: Trevor Tombe To: Deficit observers Date: August 1, 2025Re: Confronting Canada’s Fiscal Future Canada’s pledge to spend 5 percent of GDP on defence, if acted upon, will come with potentially large fiscal costs. Following through will require either sustained deficits, tax increases, or difficult reductions in other areas of federal spending. More likely, it […] 
Published in Financial Post By John Lester and Alex Laurin The federal government has promised a spending review aimed at limiting the growth in its operating spending, also known as direct program expenses, to two per cent a year. With the new NATO commitment to increase defence-related spending by over $100 billion a year by 2035, restraining non-defence […] 
From: Nicholas Chesterley To: Prosperity watchers Date: June 20, 2025Re: Measure Everything That Matters, not Just GDP Discussions of national performance by governments, the media, and the public often focus on GDP, how much a country has produced in a year. They spend less time on national wealth – the total value of our national […]