306 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Intelligence Memos
From: Edward Waitzer
To: Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development and Minister Responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Date: March 30, 2020
Re: Fairness to tenants – the urgent need for a nationally coordinated policy response
Residential tenancies represent more than a third of the national housing stock.…
Intelligence Memos
From: Tammy Schirle
To: The incoming Minister of Women and Gender Equality (formerly Status of Women Canada.)
Date: October 22 2019
As minister, your overarching goal will be to advance gender equality in Canada’s economic, social, and political life.
You are responsible for taking a leadership role in the government-wide implementation of Gender-based Analysis Plus, an analytical…
Intelligence Memos
From: Barry Gros and Barbara Sanders
To: Canada’s pension regulators
Date: October 15, 2019
Re: Pension Regulations Headed in the Wrong Direction
With the demise of defined-benefit pension plans in the private sector, so-called “contingent” pension plans with benefits conditional on financial performance are rising to the fore. But the direction pension regulators are taking with…
Intelligence Memos
OK, let me start off by saying, I admire and respect all of my former political colleagues on the panel here today. I knew Dwight and Joe when they were positive, optimistic finance ministers. What happened to you guys?
I hope that political retirement doesn’t have the same impact on me.
Look, we know there are some very serious challenges that we must address and overcome to be at our…
Intelligence Memos
In the C.D. Howe Institute’s inaugural Regent Debate four prominent voices sparred over the following question: Should Western democracies, such as Canada, establish a universal basic income? Today, former senator Hugh Segal’s argument in the affirmative.
I will be humble in my presentation except to say this: Janice (MacKinnon) made some very good points. None of them relate to the issue at hand…
Intelligence Memos
From: Jon Johnson
To: Trade Officials of the EU, Canada, Mexico and Japan
Date: June 12, 2018
Re: Is Trump’s Call for “Total Free Trade” Real or a Bluff
Just before departing the G7 conference on Saturday, Donald Trump stated that his government believes in “total free trade,” with the complete elimination of tariffs, subsidies and non-tariff barriers. He raised the (…
