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Intelligence Memos
From: Mawakina Bafale and William B.P. Robson
To: Canadians Concerned about Productivity
Date: July 18, 2022
Re: Canada’s Economy is Decapitalizing
Yet another alarming inflation number from Statistics Canada – 7.7 percent year-over-year in May– has underlined that something is seriously wrong with Canada’s economy.
Prices are rising fast because spending is rising fast while…
Op-Ed
Yet another alarming inflation number from Statistics Canada — 7.7 per cent from May to May — has underlined that something is seriously wrong with Canada’s economy. Prices are rising fast because spending is rising fast while production is not. The capacity of our economy to produce is flatlining because business investment has been so weak that the stock of productive capital per worker is…
Intelligence Memos
From: Lawrence Herman
To: Canadians Concerned About Trade
Date: May 12, 2022
Re: Russian Sanctions Will Reverberate for Decades
Canadian and American governments announced plans last month to liquidate Russian assets frozen by sanctions and to distribute the proceeds to affected victims and to war-torn countries.
As Russia’s brutal ground war grinds on, this is a significant…
Media Release
March 10, 2022 – The federal government needs to get serious about preparing Canada to meet future challenges by focusing on achieving growth and fiscal sustainability in its 2022 budget, according to the C.D. Howe Institute’s latest Shadow Budget.
In “Getting Serious: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2022,” authors William B.P. Robson, Don Drummond and Alexandre Laurin examine the federal government’…
Intelligence Memos
To: Ontario Ministers in Charge of Innovation Policy
From: Daniel Schwanen
Date: January 18, 2022
Re: Tackling Canada’s Commercialization Deficit
In a previous memo, I illustrated Canada’s unique position as a world leader generating and exporting research and development, while at the same time being a net importer of intellectual property (IP).
The issue has persisted for decades, and proposed…
Op-Ed
All the major political parties have put out their plans to deal with the housing market crises in Canada’s cities. The focus is on affordability. In other words, how to make home ownership easier for Canadians currently priced out of the housing market. But is there much the federal government can do? Unfortunately, the answer is no, with most levers – especially those that will encourage more…
