291 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
From: Glen Hodgson
To: Overseers of Crown Corporations
Date: July 6, 2021
Re: The InterCity and Rural Bus Market: Many Ways to Reach the Destination
Canada’s Crown corporations form a major part of the economy, but rarely draw detailed scrutiny. In his latest C.D. Howe Institute Commentary and in this special Intelligence Memo series, Fellow-in-Residence Glen Hodgson…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond
To: Canadian Debt Watchers
Date: April 20, 2021
Re: Budget 2021 Leaves Canada Awash in Debt for More than a Generation
The C.D. Howe Institute 2021 Shadow Budget recommended the federal government return to around the pre-pandemic 30 percent of GDP net debt burden within two decades. Yesterday’s Budget shows that marker of fiscal stability not being attained until…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson
To: Canadian Debt Watchers
Date: February 25, 2021
Re: Provincial Debts and Federal Bailouts – It’s Complicated
When COVID-19 crashed the economy last spring, Canadian governments ramped up borrowing so much that concern spiked about fiscally weaker provinces finding buyers for their debt. The Bank of Canada saw off that crisis by including provincial…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond and Louis Lévesque
To: Newfoundland and Labrador Taxpayers
Date: February 5, 2021
Re: The Newfoundland and Labrador Fiscal Morass
Newfoundland and Labrador’s fiscal balance is sharply deteriorating this year. But a structural fiscal problem was well engrained prior to the pandemic and latest plunge in oil prices. After bringing its debt burden (net debt-to-…
Op-Ed
A global pandemic that has crushed the economy. A stock market improbably rising in an economic downturn. Is it the job of the Bank of Canada to address this contradiction, and the inequality that arises?
Not directly, but the link between monetary policy and inequality is very real and affects the ability of the central bank to reliably hit its 2-per-cent inflation target.
In March and April,…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond
To: The Office of the Prime Minister
Date: August 24, 2020
Re: Don't Forget a Fiscal Anchor for the Speech from the Throne
Prime Minister Trudeau has indicated the government will disclose expensive initiatives to Canadians in a Speech from the Throne on September 23.
Without also proposing very large tax increases, this new agenda would clearly abandon any…
