291 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
From: Duncan G. Sinclair, David Walker, Chris Simpson and Don Drummond
To: Canada’s health ministers
Date: November 6, 2019
Re: Getting to a People-Centred Health System
Notwithstanding its iconic standing as one of Canada’s defining characteristics, medicare, our publicly funded health insurance program, is widely recognized to be in need of fundamental change.
It was designed…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canada’s voters
From: William B.P. Robson
Date: October 10, 2019
Re: Campaign 2019: Dumb on Deficits
For Canadians concerned about national finances, the 2019 federal election campaign has been a double whammy. Personal smears and social-media mobbing have mostly eclipsed substance. And any discussion of budgetary policy that has managed to cut through the noise has been…
Intelligence Memos
From: Rosalie Wyonch
To: Canadian drug regulators
Date: September 4, 2019
Subject: Drug Price Regulations and the Problem with External Referencing
Last month, the federal government released revised regulations for determining the maximum price of patented medicines in Canada. The new rules bring significant change to the way the Patented Medicine Pricing Review Board…
Intelligence Memos
The C.D. Howe Institute’s third Regent Debate recently addressed the question: Should Governments Regulate Big Tech to Protect the Public Interest? Today, former FBI director James Comey and Robert Atkinson, head of Washington’s Information and Technology Innovation Foundation, offered their rebuttals.
James Comey: It appears we agree up here on two things. The first is that government…
Intelligence Memos
From: Kevin Comeau
To: Canada’s financial regulators
Date: May 30, 2019
Re: Closing the Biggest Money Laundering Loophole
On May 9, an expert panel on money laundering issued its report, Combatting Money Laundering in B.C. Real Estate, in which it estimated 2018 money laundering in Canada at $46.7 billion. In my C.D. Howe Institute paper this month, I estimated money…
Op-Ed
On May 9, an expert panel on money laundering issued its report, Combatting Money Laundering in BC Real Estate, in which it estimated 2018 money laundering in Canada at $46.7 billion. In a recent C.D. Howe Institute report, titled Why We Fail to Catch Money Launderers 99.9% of the Time, I estimate money laundering in Canada at $100 billion to $130 billion. Who’s right?
Actually, it doesn’t matter…
