306 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Intelligence Memos
From: Konrad W. von Finckenstein
To: The Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Date: May 31, 2017
Re: Chapter 19 is Unique and Should Not be Given Up in NAFTA Renegotiations
In the upcoming NAFTA renegotiations, I urge you not to relinquish Chapter 19 on dispute settlements. In a recent for paper for the C.D. Howe Institute entitled “NAFTA Negotiations – A different route to…
Intelligence Memos
From: Bill Robson
To: Retirement savers, employers and pension plan administrators
Date: 21 June 2016
Re: The Finance Ministers’ Statement on CPP Expansion
That federal and provincial finance ministers announced agreement in principle to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) at their 20 June 2016 meeting is no surprise. The prospect of a separate Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) created a…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on September 30, 2014
By Åke Blomqvist and Colin Busby
Åke Blomqvist is an adjunct professor at Carleton University and health policy scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute. Colin Busby is a senior policy analyst at the Institute.
Cash-strapped provincial governments face a monumental challenge in the years ahead: Steeply increasing long-term care (LTC) costs,…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on June 13, 2012
By Alexandre Laurin, Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle
It's a simple fact -- Canadians are living longer. Many Canadians are also working longer and might want to delay taking up their retirement benefits. Recent changes to Old Age Security are designed to encourage flexible choice for retirement, applying an actuarial adjustment to the pension…
Media Release
November 13, 2014 – Low income seniors face extremely heavy tax burdens across Canada, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Who Loses Most? The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Retirement Incomes,” authors Finn Poschmann and Alexandre Laurin show that seniors can be hit hard by taxes and benefit clawbacks in retirement.
“Our analysis shows that effective tax rates are very high for…
Media Release
August 9, 2023 – Inflation and taxation are a painful mix. Money losing its purchasing power hurts on its own, but tax provisions that ignore inflation can multiply the pain for earners, savers, and recipients of benefits, says a new C.D. Howe Institute report.
In “Double the Pain: How Inflation Increases Tax Burdens,” the C.D. Howe Institute’s William B.P. Robson and Alex Laurin identify…
