20 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
To: Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage
From: Konrad von Finckenstein
Date: February 15, 2022
Re: Two Improvements Needed for Bill C-11
You recently introduced Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Act. The title reflects the laudable goal of integrating the over-the-top broadcasters (commonly…
Intelligence Memos
From: Glen Hodgson
To: Travis Toews, Alberta Minister of Finance and President of the Treasury Board
Re: Time to Review ATB Financial: Is It Still Needed as a Crown Corporation?
Date: January 13, 2022
Alberta is the only province to have a retail bank owned by taxpayers. Is this still the right purpose for ATB Financial? More regular public review of ATB’s mandate by the Alberta government would…
Intelligence Memos
From: Alexandre Laurin and William B.P. Robson
To: Canada’s Tax Collectors
Date: September 27, 2022
Re: Inflation Pain Includes Tax Creep and Benefit Erosion
Inflation of 7 percent or more is something many Canadians had never experienced until this summer. As a country, we are rediscovering how much inflation hurts. The shrinking value of our dollars is bad enough on its own, but…
Intelligence Memos
From: Barry Gros
To: Canada’s Pension Regulators
Date: September 12, 2022
Re: Standards Hinder the Proper Management of Target Benefit Pension Plans
The majority of single-employer defined-benefit (DB) pension plans in the private sector have been either closed to future accruals, completely converted to defined-contribution plans or wound up. Their influence lingers, however…
Intelligence Memos
From: Mawakina Bafale and William B.P. Robson
To: Canadians Concerned about Productivity
Date: July 18, 2022
Re: Canada’s Economy is Decapitalizing
Yet another alarming inflation number from Statistics Canada – 7.7 percent year-over-year in May– has underlined that something is seriously wrong with Canada’s economy.
Prices are rising fast because spending is rising fast while…
Intelligence Memos
From: Lawrence Herman
To: Canadians Concerned About Trade
Date: May 12, 2022
Re: Russian Sanctions Will Reverberate for Decades
Canadian and American governments announced plans last month to liquidate Russian assets frozen by sanctions and to distribute the proceeds to affected victims and to war-torn countries.
As Russia’s brutal ground war grinds on, this is a significant…
