291 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
To: Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage
From: Konrad von Finckenstein
Date: February 15, 2022
Re: Two Improvements Needed for Bill C-11
You recently introduced Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act. The title reflects the laudable goal of integrating the over-the-top broadcasters (commonly…
Intelligence Memos
From: Glen Hodgson
To: Travis Toews, Alberta Minister of Finance and President of the Treasury Board
Re: Time to Review ATB Financial: Is It Still Needed as a Crown Corporation?
Date: January 13, 2022
Alberta is the only province to have a retail bank owned by taxpayers. Is this still the right purpose for ATB Financial? More regular public review of ATB’s mandate by the Alberta government would…
Intelligence Memos
From: Harvey Naglie
To: Central Bank Observers
Date: December 20, 2021
Re: Hit Pause on Ontario’s Proposed Capital Markets Act
In October, the Ontario Government issued a consultation draft for a revised Capital Markets Act, intended to become Ontario’s new securities legislation. This is a rewarmed version of a decade-old proposal, a wasted once-in-a-generation opportunity…
Intelligence Memos
From: Jon Johnson
To: Global Affairs Canada
Copy to: Environment and Climate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada
Date: August 31, 2021
Re: The Proposed US FAIR Transition and Competition Act: Less Than Fair
Last month, Democrats Senator Chris Coons and Representative Scott Peters introduced border carbon adjustment legislation, dubbing it the FAIR Transition and…
Op-Ed
In 1990, then-prime minister Brian Mulroney infamously quipped that a first ministers’ meeting about the Meech Lake Accord was “the day I’m going to roll all the dice.”
The 2021 federal budget rolls Canada’s dice again, by burdening a generation with more debt. One hopes the result is more positive than what befell the accord and the Mulroney government.
Some of us were hoping the budget would…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond
To: Ontario Budget Watchers
Date: March 29, 2021
Re: Ontario Budget: Much Heavy Lifting Required to Achieve Fiscal Stability
Ontario’s 2021 budget last week added a longer-term perspective to the usual short- or medium-term perspective of budgets, and it does not make for pleasant viewing.
Its three scenarios for GDP growth – 1.8, 2.0 and 2.2 percent per…
