Speeches and Presentations

Amid a war of words over federal transfers to the provinces, the House of Commons Subcommittee on Fiscal Imbalance recently launched cross-country hearings. The C.D. Howe Institute’s Associate Director of Research, Finn Poschmann, addressed the Committee in Toronto on March 11. His remarks, “The Federal Provincial Balance: Teetering on the Edge of Coherence” suggested that the current system is in disarray, but he also saw good reasons for optimism.

How Tax Barriers Stifle North American Capital-Market Efficiency -- and How Their Removal Would Deepen NAFTA Integration prepared by Jack M. Mintz for the Luncheon Address, International Fiscal Association Canada-U.S. Seminar, Mayflower Hotel, Washington D.C.