306 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Intelligence Memos
To: The Hon. Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
From: Brian Livingston
Date: December 14, 2022
Re: Counting Carbon II: A Reality Check on Our Emission Reduction Plan
The federal government’s ambitious Emissions Reduction Plan (ERP) sets out targets for seven economic sectors as it aims to cut 2030 emissions by 42 percent from 2019 levels. But the ERP is…
Op-Ed
Before the federal government’s Fall Economic Statement last month, we often heard words like “restraint” and “prudence.” Less so afterwards. The statement’s projections confirm that every new forecast from Ottawa shows the federal government getting bigger faster, with every area of spending swelling more by the year.
The government’s last pre-COVID projections were in its 2019 fall…
Intelligence Memos
From: Alexandre Laurin and William B.P. Robson
To: Canada’s Tax Collectors
Date: September 27, 2022
Re: Inflation Pain Includes Tax Creep and Benefit Erosion
Inflation of 7 percent or more is something many Canadians had never experienced until this summer. As a country, we are rediscovering how much inflation hurts. The shrinking value of our dollars is bad enough on its own, but…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canada’s Policymakers
From: Derek E. H. Olmstead and Adonis Yatchew
Date: July 29, 2022
Re: An Alberta Advantage: Carbon Pricing in the Wholesale Electricity Market
The Alberta wholesale electricity market provides an ideal setting to assess the effectiveness of carbon pricing in influencing firm behaviour and carbon emissions.
This is because production costs associated with…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canadians Worried About Inflation
From: Sylvain Charlebois
Date: February 3, 2022
Re: Canada’s Dairy Machinery Strikes Again
The Canadian Dairy Commission’s record-breaking price increases for milk and butter took effect this week, granting dairy farmers 8.4 percent more for their milk, and more than 12 percent for butter.
It is the highest increase since the commission was created…
Intelligence Memos
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 assesses governance at FCC.
From: Glen Hodgson
To: Overseers of Crown Corporations
Date: June 23, 2021
Re: How is Farm Credit Canada Governed?…
