81 results found for "basic income"
Op-Ed
A basic principle of good governance in Canada is that governments set mandates for crown corporations and regulatory authorities and those arm’s-length institutions then make use of the tools at their disposal to design actual policies. This principle is under threat on the campaign trail as politicians weigh in on one of the issues voters care most about these days, housing affordability.…
Op-Ed
We knew the number would be big. Just how big was the question.
Statistics Canada released its initial estimate of second-quarter GDP on Friday. Output dropped by 11.5 per cent compared with first-quarter GDP and by a little over 13 per cent compared with the second quarter of 2019. This is the largest recorded quarterly decline since Statistics Canada began reporting quarterly GDP numbers in…
Op-Ed
Posted in the Globe & Mail on June 6, 2013
By Peter Howitt
Canada’s federal government, pursuing a growth and innovation agenda aimed at a lingering productivity problem, seems to think the solution lies in turning researchers into entrepreneurs – recent changes to the National Research Council’s mandate are the latest example. But the greatest commercial successes come from top…
Op-Ed
Published in the Toronto Sun on April 30, 2013
By Colin Busby
When Ontario’s 2013 budget appears Thursday, the headline story will be about the government’s progress on ending deficits and returning to balanced budgets. Looking beyond the budget’s big ticket items and undoubtedly opaque language, and doing some early number crunching, will reveal a story about the government’s ability to…
Op-Ed
Published in the National Post on March 6, 2013
By Colin Busby & Alexandre Laurin
In the 1980s, during a time of large provincial deficits, Alberta premier Don Getty famously quipped that the difficulty of restraining spending after years of unrelenting growth was akin to “turning the Queen Mary.” The phrase undoubtedly resonates with Alberta’s fiscal planners today.
This week’s…
Op-Ed
For Canadians concerned about national finances, the 2019 federal election campaign has been a double whammy. Personal smears and social-media mobbing have mostly eclipsed substance. And the discussions of budgetary policy that have cut through the noise have been discouraging. Especially the commitments for more and bigger deficits: even more red ink in the next four years than was spilled in…
