5 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
From: Kevin Milligan
To: Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Date: July 4, 2016
Re: Dare to dream, but do the math
Minister, in your former academic life you wrote many papers exploring the benefits of placing Canada’s income transfers into one package—sometimes called a ‘Basic Income’ or a ‘Guaranteed Minimum Income’. You are aware of the possible advantages…
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond and Dr. Duncan Sinclair
To: All Canadians
Date: June 9, 2016
Re: It's Time to Create a Real Healthcare System
Recently Ontario’s MOHs issued a cris de coeur pleading for legislation to regulate the prescribing of opiates and for the wide distribution of naloxone. Asking elected politicians to write what amounts to clinical guidelines adds yet more evidence…
Intelligence Memos
From: Zachary Spicer
To: City Councils Across Canada
Date: November 30, 2016
Re: The Dreadful Conditions of Municipal Budgets
In their recent report, Two Sets of Books at City Hall? Grading the Finance Reports of Canada’s Cities, Benjamin Dachis, William B.P. Robson and Jennifer Y. Tsao argue that many of the annual budgets in Canada’s cities are in dreadful condition – key activities are…
Intelligence Memos
From: Trevor Tombe
To: Hon. Deron Bilous, Alberta Minister of Economic Development and Trade
Date: October 25, 2016
Re: Five Ways to a Better Diversification Debate in Alberta
Alberta’s economy has seen better days. To many, the cause is clear: we’re over-reliant on oil and gas. Faced with this broad sentiment, the government is exploring various policies aimed at “economic diversification”. As…
Intelligence Memos
From: Benjamin Dachis
To: The Hon. Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada
Date: October 20, 2016
Re: Home energy tax credits are not the right way to reduce emissions
Your government has plans to re-introduce incentives for home-energy retrofits. If so, this will follow a long line of policies that have provided hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize people and…