Adam Aptowitzer – Charitable Donations of Private Shares and Real Estate: Let’s Not Overthink This
From: Adam Aptowitzer To: Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance Date: September 25, 2017 Re: Charitable Donations of Private Shares and Real Estate: Let’s Not Overthink This For several years, voices in the charity community have been advocating for changes to the regime by which private company shares and real estate may be donated to charity. […] Peter Tertzakian – Oil Under the NAFTA Microscope
From: Peter Tertzakian To: NAFTA Negotiators/ Concerned Canadians Date: September 22, 2017 Re: Oil Under the NAFTA Microscope As NAFTA talks resume this weekend in Ottawa, oil is visible under negotiators’ microscopes. Last year, the bilateral trade of energy (including natural gas, oil and power) between the US and Canada was about $55 billion (all […] Opportunities for Better Systemic Risk Management in Canada
Ottawa and the provinces should bolster their ability to monitor and deal with systemic risks to the financial system, according to a report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In Opportunities for Better Systemic Risk Management in Canada, author Nicholas Le Pan recommends greater coordination by regulators to fill gaps in the current system, and outlines a […] Ottawa, Provinces, Should Close Gaps In Systemic Risk Monitoring
Ottawa and the provinces should bolster their ability to monitor and deal with systemic risks to the financial system, according to a report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Opportunities for Better Systemic Risk Management in Canada,” author Nicholas Le Pan recommends greater…Nicholas Le Pan – Getting Canada Ready for Its Systemic Risk Audit
To: All Canadian financial regulators From: Nicholas Le Pan Date: September 21, 2017 Re: Getting Canada Ready for Its Systemic Risk Audit When the IMF last reviewed Canada’s financial system in 2014 it recommended we do better in managing the federal provincial coordination aspects of systemic risk oversight, and improve systemic risk management in the capital markets area. The […] Ottawa’s Tax Moves Reveal Sad State Of Doctor Compensation: Globe And Mail Op-ed
Physicians, especially those in Ontario, are furious at the federal government’s proposed changes to small-business taxation. The federal changes follow successive unilateral fee decreases imposed by the government of Ontario and will further sour bargaining negotiations, likely resulting in an undesirable arbitration process.
This is the basic state of physician compensation today: Doctors are self-employed small-business entrepreneurs (with one payer) who bargain as a non-union unit with no ability to strike and binding arbitration rights. It is an awkward structure, to put it mildly.
At the outset of Canadian medicare in the 1960s, the major obstacle to making a public-insurance scheme reality came from physician groups…
Harvey Naglie – The New Capital Markets Securities Regulator Is Not Investor Friendly
From: Harvey Naglie To: Canadian Stock Market Regulators Date: September 20, 2017 Re: The New Capital Markets Securities Regulator Is Not Investor Friendly The federal government together with five provinces (Ontario, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) and one territory (Yukon) are planning to introduce a new capital markets regulator before the end of next […] Canada’s New Securities Regulator Not Ready For Launch
Canada’s proposed new securities regulator , due to be rolled out next year, is not ready for launch, according to a leading financial expert. In Not Ready for Prime Time: Canada’s Proposed New Securities Regulator, published by the C.D. Howe Institute, author…John Palmer – Bread and Circuses Revisited. The Reality of Taxpayer Support for Arenas
From: John Palmer To: Concerned Calgarians Date: September 19, 2017 Re: Bread and Circuses Revisited. The Reality of Taxpayer Support for Arenas Calgary is in the middle of the traditional Canadian big-city dance in which a professional sports team, the Flames hockey club in this instance, is demanding that taxpayers foot much of the bill […]Not Ready for Prime Time: Canada’s Proposed New Securities Regulator
Canada’s proposed new securities regulator , due to be rolled out next year, is not ready for launch, according to a leading financial expert. In Not Ready for Prime Time: Canada’s Proposed New Securities Regulator, published by the C.D. Howe Institute, author Harvey Naglie argues that, in its current form, the proposed regulator suffers from key […] Kronick And Muthukumaran – Look Ma, We’ve Brought Back The Diffusion Index
To: Bank of Canada Governing Council From: Jeremy Kronick and Ramya Muthukumaran Date: September 18, 2017 Re: Look Ma, We’ve Brought Back the Diffusion Index One of the big puzzles for inflation-targeting central banks since the 2008 crisis has been missing inflation. Despite rock-bottom interest rates, unconventional monetary policy, and some healthy GDP rebounds, many […] Andy Charles – Housing Prices in the GTA and Mortgage Lending
From: Andy Charles To: Bill Morneau, Minister of Finance Date: September 15, 2017 Re: Housing Prices in the GTA and Mortgage Lending The trajectory of home price increases in the GTA has been an obsession over the past 18 months. Everybody has a theory. What or who is responsible for driving prices upwards? Foreign buyers? […]