291 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson
To: Members of Parliament and pension regulators
Date: November 7, 2017
Re: Lesson from the Sears Disaster: Fund Pensions Properly!
The bankruptcy of Sears Canada, and the threat that its underfunded pension plan won’t pay what it promised, has drawn widespread attention, not least from members of Parliament.…
Intelligence Memos
From: Chang-Tai Hsieh, Nicholas Li, Ralph Ossa, Mu-Jeung Yang
To: Concerned Canadians
Date: October 19, 2017
Re: Free Trade is More Complex Than You Thought
Most trade economists have come to believe that the gains from trade liberalization go beyond lower prices for imported goods. Inspired by the ‘new’ trade models of Paul Krugman and Marc Melitz, they now usually add that…
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…
Intelligence Memos
From: Alexandre Laurin and William Robson
To: Participants in the Canada Pension Plan
Date: September 7, 2017
Re: Investment Risks in an Expanded CPP
Our report in April, Bigger CPP, Bigger Risks, highlighted the possibility that disappointing investment returns in the expanded Canada Pension Plan (CPP2) will force younger Canadians to bail the plan out, and urged provisions to protect them. It…
Media Release
January 20, 2016 – Canadian governments must rethink healthcare on five areas of national priority, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Challenging Vested Interests: National Priorities for Healthcare,” authors Åke Blomqvist and Colin Busby find that compared to the healthcare systems of a large group of peers, Canadian systems do not produce enough high-quality care for…
Op-Ed
Today, provincial and federal health ministers are meeting in Vancouver to negotiate a new health accord. Given the underwhelming results of the previous accord, and the mounting challenges facing today’s provincial health systems, they have their work cut out for them.
Canada’s health-care system ranks in the median on a number of OECD performance measures, but is one of the highest spenders on…
