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Last week’s announcement that former Pan Am Games chief Saad Rafi will run the proposed Ontario Retirement Pension Plan makes it sound ready to go. It is not. Until Ontarians get some basic information about how the scheme is supposed to work, the ORPP is more notion than actual plan. The provincial government has released some specs. The contribution rate: Employers and employees…

Planned giving allows you to provide future support for the organizations that are of the greatest importance to you — and can often allow you to  make a larger contribution than you might have thought possible. These gifts ultimately provide a meaningful legacy in your name for the C.D. Howe Institute. While the various planned gift vehicles provide the donor with definite tax advantages,…

Published in TVO. Despite bold promises and billions of dollars of support, Ontario manufacturing jobs remain around the same level as when Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives came to power. The province needs to move past the nostalgic view of the manufacturing sector and instead focus on an economy based on innovation and advanced technologies so it can thrive in an ever-changing global…

From: Rosalie Wyonch  To: Healthcare observers Date: March 18, 2024 Re: The Lingering Pharmacare Questions The Liberals and NDP have reached a deal on pharmacare, but there are many challenges to overcome. It will take years to implement and many questions remain unanswered.  Canada is the only developed country with universal insurance for hospital and physician…

Wouldn’t it be great if more government infrastructure were built faster and cheaper? The Ontario government certainly thinks so and is creating the Ontario Infrastructure Bank (OIB) to get that done. Unfortunately, inadequate funding is not the problem plaguing infrastructure investment. The province never comes close to spending the money it allocates to infrastructure. In 2022-23 alone, it…

The federal government recently finalized regulations for its “zero-emissions vehicle” mandate. The mandate requires sellers of light vehicles (passenger cars and light trucks) to sell a rising minimum of zero-emissions vehicles — basically, electric vehicles or EVs — every year, culminating with 100 per cent EVs in 2035, just 11 years from now. Reasonable forecasts of production and sales…