291 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
From: Benjamin Dachis
To: Steve Clark, Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Date: April 1, 2022
Re: Supply Constraints Drive Housing Prices Spikes
This week’s announcement from the Ontario government of their planned actions on housing shows more is still needed to truly solve the housing cost crisis. And the Union of British Columbia Municipalities issued a report last week putting…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond and Duncan Sinclair
To: Canadians Concerned About Well-Being
Date: March 8, 2022
Re: Does Ottawa’s New Home for ‘Quality of Life’ Mean a New Direction?
Last June the federal government embarked on consultations about incorporating “quality of life measurements into government decision-making and budgeting, drawing on lessons from other jurisdictions such as New…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond
To: Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Date: December 16, 2020
Re: Through the Fiscal Fog: Large Deficits and Debt as Far as the Eye Can See
I recently set out four wildly differing federal fiscal scenarios for the future. Recent Government of Canada announcements lift the fog enough to narrow possibilities. We can now see clearly that the future…
Intelligence Memos
From: David Gray
To: The Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion
Date: November 23, 2020
Re: What Does the Pandemic Teach us about EI?
The COVID-19 pandemic brought labour market conditions to Depression-era levels during the months of April and May, and as of October, the unemployment rate of 8.9 percent was still 3.3 percentage points…
Intelligence Memos
From: Joel Blit
To: Canadians concerned about jobs
Date: July 16, 2020
Re: COVID-19 Will Transform Our Economy – If We Get Our Policies Right
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, our economy is undergoing a transformation of unprecedented proportions. This transformation will increase productivity, but more than half a million jobs could be lost due to automation and reallocation.
Since…
Intelligence Memos
From: Alexandre Laurin and Benjamin Dachis
To: Finance Minister Bill Morneau
Date: May 25, 2020
Re: An Income Support Plan to Support the Recovery
The first cohort of Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) recipients are about to lose eligibility on July 5. Ottawa must announce soon what’s next.
As the province-by-province restart begins, income support needs to shift from broad-…
