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Intelligence Memos
From: Trevor Jamieson and Ewan Affleck
To: Canadian Healthcare Observers
Date: May 25, 2023
Re: Better health depends on better health data
Canada’s governments recently came to broad agreement on renewing federal-provincial health transfers. Ottawa asked the provinces and territories to modernize Canadians’ access to their electronic health information with “…
Media Release
Toronto, July 28 – While the Bank of Canada expects the Canadian economy to return to full employment by the middle of 2012, its critics have stressed the need to raise interest rates to a “neutral” value by then to keep inflation stable. But defining this neutral level, normally associated with full employment, is a bit of a smoke and mirrors game, according to a report from the C.D. Howe…
Research
The Study In Brief
Finance Canada is conducting a review to modernize and improve the scientific research and experimental development (SR&ED) tax incentive program, and is considering the creation of a Patent Box for Canada.
The review of SR&ED should recognize that its raison d’être is to encourage R&D, which benefits society through knowledge spillovers. Separate programs should…
Intelligence Memos
From: John Lester
To: Canadians Concerned About Innovation
Date: April 26, 2022
Re: Broadening the New Review of Tax Support for R&D
Canadians concerned about our lacklustre innovation performance were cheered by the budget announcement that the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) program would be reviewed.
Canada’s business research and development performance is…
Intelligence Memos
From: Paul Jenkins and Jeremy M. Kronick
To: Canadians Looking to Understand the Times
Date: April 2, 2020
Subject: COVID-19: A Macroeconomic Narrative
These are highly uncertain times, as we individually and collectively face the challenges of COVID-19. With the many complexities – both health and economic related – is there a simple narrative that can help in bridging us through the…
Intelligence Memos
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To: Canadian businesses and diplomats in the EU
From: Daniel Schwanen
Re: Canadian interest and possibilities in avoiding a “hard Brexit” (Part Two)
Date: October 31, 2018
Yesterday, we discussed the perils of a hard Brexit for both the UK and the European Union, along with Canada, with all its attendant consequences.
Today, I lay out a way forward that imagines a…
