From: Denis Meunier
To: Canada's Financial Regulators and Policymakers
Date: June 19, 2018
Re: Let’s Make Sure We Know Who Runs Canada’s New Cannabis Industry
Political expediency to enact The Cannabis Act may yet override the threat to public safety posed by organized crime’s infiltration into the legalized cannabis industry.
Organized crime has already arrived, according to senior police officials, who also warn that the use of tax havens helps mask its involvement.
From: Jessy Donelle, Jacalyn Duffin, Jon Pipitone and Brian White-Guay
To: Canada’s Healthcare Policymakers
Date: June 18, 2018
Re: Canada’s Drug Shortage Problem
Drug shortages in Canada are a problem in need of immediate solutions.
From: Benjamin Dachis
To: Ontario’s New Government
CC: Municipal governments across the province
Date: June 15, 2018
Re: The Startling Costs of Regulation in Housing Prices
The cost of housing has been going through the roof in many parts of Canada. But even as governments have focused on curtailing demand, supply constraints are the more likely key cause of surging prices.
From: Dan Ciuriak
To: Canadians Concerned about Tariffs
Date: June 14, 2018
Re: Deconstructing Canada’s Progressive Trade Agenda
Canada is developing a progressive trade agenda in response to the global rise of anti-globalization populism.
And while it may seem a forlorn goal given the current Washington-induced trade turmoil, it is in fact a strategy explicitly designed to counteract the impulses that appear to be driving the US administration.
Ottawa: Look beyond NAFTA for Progressive Trade Partners
June 14, 2018 – Ottawa should press its progressive trade agenda, which is a response to the global rise of anti-globalization, with trading partners other than Washington, according to a new report by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Canada’s Progressive Trade Agenda: NAFTA and Beyond,” author Dan Ciuriak assesses the effectiveness of the PTA and weighs in on whether it can be successfully incorporated in a revised NAFTA agreement in the age of President Donald Trump.
Ottawa should press its progressive trade agenda, which is a response to the global rise of anti-globalization, with trading partners other than Washington, according to a new report by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Canada’s Progressive Trade Agenda: NAFTA and Beyond,” author Dan Ciuriak assesses the effectiveness of the PTA and weighs in on whether it can be successfully incorporated in a revised NAFTA agreement in the age of President Donald Trump.
From: Benjamin Dachis and Jacob Kim
To: Innovation-Attentive Canadians
Date: June 13, 2018
Re: How Calgary (Quietly) Took the Lead as Canada’s Innovation Leader
Which is the most innovative city in Canada? Calgary now has the crown, by one of the most universal ways of measuring such things: patent applications. And it`s happened with none of the fanfare that accompanied the rise of previous tech hubs, such as Ottawa or Waterloo.
From: Jon Johnson
To: Trade Officials of the EU, Canada, Mexico and Japan
Date: June 12, 2018
Re: Is Trump’s Call for “Total Free Trade” Real or a Bluff
From: Benjamin Dachis
To: The Incoming Ontario Minister of Finance
cc: The Hon. Bill Morneau, federal Minister of Finance and all provincial ministers of finance
Date: June 11, 2018
Re: A Lower Ontario Corporate Tax as the Catalyst for Broad Tax Reform
From: Laurence Kotlikoff
To: Global policymakers
Date: June 8, 2018
Re: Our Economic Future and How to Fix It
(An extract of remarks at the C.D. Howe Institute’s annual Jack Mintz Lecture)