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Bravo and thank you to the C.D. Howe Institute and to its members for a half-century of work to improve the quality of life of all Canadians!

The C.D. Howe’s Financial Services Research Initiative is a unique set-up, unparalleled in Canada. It brings together policy makers, industry experts, financial institutions and academic researchers for a free exchange of ideas and pressing regulatory concerns.

It is an honour to be invited to join the C. D. Howe Institute as a Senior Fellow.

No one at the C.D. Howe Institute has ever told me what opinions I should hold, but when it comes to how I present them, it is a very different matter. Its readers and editors require logically coherent arguments, well supported by evidence and clearly expressed. The Institute’s peer-review process is impeccable.

I use C.D. Howe reports and briefs in many of the columns I write and in every policy course I teach at McGill. They are the model of intelligent, informed, evidence-based analysis. Canadian policy debate would be bleak without their like.

You need outside voices, like the C.D. Howe Institute, that are rigorous and thoughtful, that challenge some of the assumptions that are made within government.

The C.D. Howe Institute was very instrumental in making sure that Canada took the right direction at times when there were challenges facing the country.

I have valued everything about my time so far with the C.D. Howe Institute.  There are a broad range of policy issues that will see insurance becoming an even more significant topic in public debate over the next several years.  I am thrilled to be asked to continue to engage with the Institute’s outstanding team to help think these topics through.

The C.D. Howe Institute is the preeminent source of objective, peer-reviewed, quality research informing public policy in Canada, and it is an honour to be given the opportunity to contribute insights to its work.

I support the C.D. Howe Institute because Canada needs  clear, unbiased,  and factual research on the major issues facing this country. C.D. Howe delivers this in spades.   While there is little doubt that some of the conclusions are not well received, the rigour of the analysis can hardly be disputed!

The C.D. Howe Institute is the premier economic think tank in Canada, and I feel privileged to be associated with them.

Canada’s spectacular resources are easily squandered, underdeveloped or misdirected. The C.D. Howe Institute’s work enlightens public policy and helps decision makers avoid pitfalls. This is essential.

The C.D. Howe Institute helps create the policy base for a stronger Canadian economy.

Bringing together top policy-minded economists from across Canada, the C.D. Howe Institute leads the pack in analysing and debating important issues, and offers policymakers a solid foundation of logic and evidence for possible solutions.

We support the Institute because good policy decisions don’t happen by chance, they arise from informed debate aided by quality independent research.

The analysis of our health care system needs to be based on information, objective analysis, and evidence – and a lot of that great work is being done at the C.D. Howe Institute.