306 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on January 12, 2012
By James P. Feehan
Amid flags and fanfare in November 2010, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Danny Williams announced that the long awaited hydroelectric development of the Lower Churchill River was finally at hand. With premiers, energy executives and Innu leaders sharing the stage, all were agreed: A new plant would be built at Muskrat Falls in…
Research
The Study In Brief
New innovations are emerging to address the shortcomings of the “poor cousins” among employer-sponsored pension plans – defined-contribution (DC) plans and Group RRSPs. Unlike defined-benefit (DB) plans, they do not provide retirement income for life but instead focus on the accumulation phase. It’s time to put the “pension” back in these plans, which are known as capital…
Op-Ed
Hugh Segal is principal of Massey College. He served in the Canadian Senate as a Conservative from Ontario and was vice-chair of the subcommittee on urban poverty.
Every democracy’s internal legitimacy is tied to how fair the residents of that country feel their society is or tries to be. The fairness of laws, the fairness of government generally, the mix of fairness and opportunity…
Media Release
February 2, 2021 – A return to a balanced budget for Newfoundland and Labrador by 2025/26 is “hard, but doable,” say leading economists Don Drummond and Louis Lévesque in a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
In “The Rock in a Hard Place: The Difficult Fiscal Challenges Facing Newfoundland and Labrador,” the authors turn a spotlight on the root causes of the province’s current fiscal…
Intelligence Memos
From: William Robson and Miles Wu
To: Municipal Councillors, Ratepayers and Voters
Date: January 21, 2021
Re: Grading Your Municipality’s Financial Transparency
After each release of the C.D. Howe Institute’s annual report card on the financial transparency of Canada’s major cities, we get requests from councillors, ratepayers and residents in other places for additions to the report. We wish we…
Intelligence Memos
From: Marcel Boyer
To: Canada’s Debt Watchers
Date: January 7, 2021
Re: The Pervasive Economic Error in Assessing the Cost of Public Funds
In the assessment of the cost of public funds, a pervasive economic fallacy is dogma in both the private and public sectors as well as in academia: since the cost of borrowing is higher for a private sector firm than it is for a…
