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From: Parisa Mahboubi To: Canada’s ministers of education and skills development Date: November 20, 2017 Re: High Education, Lower Literacy: What to Do? Canada’s workforce has experienced a troubling slide in literacy and numeracy skills, despite higher levels of education and improvements in learning technology. In my report last week I compared results of international…

By Christpoher Ragan  Several issues of fiscal policy were highlighted in the recent federal election campaign, including budget deficits, spending on infrastructure, changes in tax rates for middle– and upper-income Canadians, and reforms to child-benefit programs. But one issue absent from the debate was a longer-term challenge: the return of Canada’s “fiscal imbalance” between the various…

Published in the Globe and Mail on January 3, 2013 By Finn Poschmann When the forerunner of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation opened shop in 1946, its job was to help war veterans find housing. From those humble beginnings, CMHC has emerged as a financial market giant. As this baby-boom behemoth contemplates life after 65, it, like many of us, should consider a more modest public role.…

Published in the Globe and Mail on April 26, 2012 By Gerard Boychuk Having won the Alberta election, Premier Alison Redford is now setting her sights on providing leadership in establishing the national agenda on health-care reform. In doing so, she won’t be able to ignore the issue of patient wait times. Wildrose may have lost the election, but it did propose some ideas in this regard that are…

From: Lawrence Herman To: Canadians concerned about trade disputes Date: November 11, 2019 Re: Keeping Score of the US-Canada Trade Disputes US investor-state disputes against Canada still loom under NAFTA, with five unresolved claims outstanding and the possibility that more could emerge. In my new C.D. Howe Institute report, I outline the history of trade disputes and show that…

July 8, 2015 – Canada’s mortgage insurance risk needs a better backstop fund, according to a new report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Mortgage Insurance as a Macroprudential Tool: Dealing with the Risk of a Housing Market Crash in Canada,” authors Thorsten V. Koeppl and James MacGee suggest an era of steadily rising house prices and high mortgage debt warrants concern over the…