Canada’s Best & Worst Places For Business Investment, By Major City
Saint John, Charlottetown, and Montreal have the highest tax burdens on new business investment amongst major Canadian cities, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Business Tax Burdens in Canada’s Major Cities: The 2015 Report Card,” authors Adam Found, Peter…Business Tax Burdens in Canada’s Major Cities: The 2015 Report Card
Saint John, Charlottetown, and Montreal have the highest tax burdens on new business investment amongst major Canadian cities, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Business Tax Burdens in Canada’s Major Cities: The 2015 Report Card,” authors Adam Found, Peter Tomlinson and Benjamin Dachis conduct the latest edition of their Business Tax Burden […] Tax Reform Priorities for Canada: Creating More Income to Go Around
Canada faces a deep long-term fiscal challenge, as its population ages and its labour force growth slows, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Tax Reform Priorities for Canada: Creating More Wealth to Go Around,” authors Craig Alexander and Alexandre Laurin address how the superior approach to meeting Canada’s long-term fiscal challenge […] How Tax Reforms Can Create A Bigger Income Pie
Canada faces a deep long-term fiscal challenge, as its population ages and its labour force growth slows, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Tax Reform Priorities for Canada: Creating More Wealth to Go Around,” authors Craig Alexander and Alexandre Laurin…Carbon pricing can balance emissions reduction and competitiveness: Globe and Mail Op-Ed
In the run-up to the Paris climate meetings, several Canadian provinces are developing or improving their carbon-pricing policies. They should be applauded for using market-based approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But businesses are nonetheless worried about how they will be affected, and this is too important an issue for governments to sweep under the carpet.
First, let’s be clear about what business “competitiveness” really means. For any Canadian business, its ability to compete successfully against its domestic and foreign rivals depends on many things. Wages, regulations, corporate taxes, the quality of workers, access to efficient supply chains, proximity to markets and foreign-exchange rates are just a few…
Tax reform priorities: Financial Post Op-Ed
By Craig Alexander
Canada faces a deep long-term fiscal challenge. Economies grow because they either have more workers or employ their workers more productively. Canada is aging and labour force growth is slowing. Meanwhile, Canada’s productivity track record is poor. As a result, income growth in the economy in the coming decades is likely to be a third less than policymakers were counting on when they made their fiscal promises in the past. Since income is the basis for tax revenues, how will governments generate the revenues to pay for key priorities?
One approach is to reduce future commitments and fight over the fair distribution of slow growing income. In a new C.D. Howe Institute report, we argue that a…
2015 Report Card On City Budgets
No major city in Canada offers a clear and transparent budget presentation, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Building Better Budgets: Canada’s Cities Should Clean Up their Financial Reporting,” authors Benjamin Dachis and William B.P. Robson provide report…Building Better Budgets: Canada’s Cities Should Clean Up their Financial Reporting
No major city in Canada offers a clear and transparent budget presentation, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Building Better Budgets: Canada’s Cities Should Clean Up their Financial Reporting,” authors Benjamin Dachis and William B.P. Robson provide report cards to 24 major Canadian cities on the quality of their budgets. Lawson Hunter Re-appointed As A Senior Fellow
William Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, announces the re-appointment of Lawson Hunter, former Commissioner of the Competition Bureau, as a Senior Fellow. “Lawson is an eminent authority on Canadian…Measuring Outcomes in the Canadian Health Sector: Driving Better Value from Healthcare
While Canada has a well-established tradition of transparency and accountability for health-system performance comparisons, few measures of outcomes are reported, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Measuring Outcomes in the Canadian Health Sector: Driving Better Value from Healthcare,” authors Jeremy Veillard, Omid Fekri, Irfan Dhalla, and Niek Klazinga examine the […]