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Media Release
February 14, 2017 – The imposition of a border adjustment tax (BAT) by the United States would hit Canadian exporters hard, according to a C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Aftershocks: Quantifying the Economic Impacts of a US Border Adjustment Tax,” authors Dan Ciuriak and Jingliang Xiao find a BAT would be trade-distorting and economically damaging to the United States and its trading partners.…
Intelligence Memos
From: Jeremy Kronick
To: The Ontario Minister of Housing
Date: May 1, 2017
Re: Why Rent Control is Doomed to Fail
One of the pillars of your recently announced plan aimed at making housing more affordable is to extend rent controls to all recently built rental units. This measure can be assessed through a number of different lenses, but viewed through an economic lens, it is a bad idea…
Intelligence Memos
From: Rosalie Wyonch
To: Education Policy Makers Across Canada
Date: January 18, 2017
Re: Preparing People for a Technological Future
In 2017, Canada needs to establish the foundations for navigating uncertain global tides, and ensure healthy economic growth over the long run. To do so, Canadians need to embrace technological innovations, and be ready for an increasingly disruptive economic…
Intelligence Memos
To: The Hon. Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Foreign Affairs
From: Daniel Schwanen and Jeremy Kronick
Date: June 15, 2017
Re: Brexiting Softly With CETA
With a seemingly clear path to a large majority in Parliament – and thus a strong hand in impending Brexit negotiations with the EU – British Prime Minister Theresa May called a general election, which took place on June 8. Unfortunately for Mrs.…
Intelligence Memos
From: Benjamin Dachis
To: The Hon. Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada
Date: April 25, 2017
Re: Clean Fuel Standard Driving in the Wrong Direction
Transportation is a major contributor to Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for 24 percent of total emissions. One policy tool Ottawa is driving forward with to reduce transportation emissions is a…
Intelligence Memos
From: Dan Ciuriak
To: The Canadian Business Community
Date: February 13, 2017
Re: Don’t Take a BAT to Trade Policy
The United States is an outlier amongst economically advanced countries as the only one that does not have a value added tax (VAT), which is the conventional and WTO-sanctioned approach to applying an economically efficient and non-trade-distorting consumption tax.
Under a VAT, the…
