23 results found for "basic income"
Intelligence Memos
To: NAFTA negotiators
From: Brenda González-Hermosillo
Date: December 15, 2017
Re: Bringing Financial Services into the NAFTA Renegotiation
Much has been said recently about the objectives and outcomes of the NAFTA renegotiation. Reflecting the US agenda, which called for the "modernization" of NAFTA, most of the discussions appear to have focused largely on tangible merchandise…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson
To: Members of Parliament and pension regulators
Date: November 7, 2017
Re: Lesson from the Sears Disaster: Fund Pensions Properly!
The bankruptcy of Sears Canada, and the threat that its underfunded pension plan won’t pay what it promised, has drawn widespread attention, not least from members of Parliament.…
Intelligence Memos
From: Chang-Tai Hsieh, Nicholas Li, Ralph Ossa, Mu-Jeung Yang
To: Concerned Canadians
Date: October 19, 2017
Re: Free Trade is More Complex Than You Thought
Most trade economists have come to believe that the gains from trade liberalization go beyond lower prices for imported goods. Inspired by the ‘new’ trade models of Paul Krugman and Marc Melitz, they now usually add that…
Op-Ed
Physicians, especially those in Ontario, are furious at the federal government's proposed changes to small-business taxation. The federal changes follow successive unilateral fee decreases imposed by the government of Ontario and will further sour bargaining negotiations, likely resulting in an undesirable arbitration process.
This is the basic state of physician compensation today: Doctors are…
Intelligence Memos
From: Alexandre Laurin and William Robson
To: Participants in the Canada Pension Plan
Date: September 7, 2017
Re: Investment Risks in an Expanded CPP
Our report in April, Bigger CPP, Bigger Risks, highlighted the possibility that disappointing investment returns in the expanded Canada Pension Plan (CPP2) will force younger Canadians to bail the plan out, and urged provisions to protect them. It…
Op-Ed
You have probably heard of bitcoin. You might have even heard about its underlying technology, the blockchain. What you may not have realized is that it is not bitcoin that will change our lives, but other applications of blockchain technology in areas such as payments, contracts and the provision of government services.
Blockchain technology in its simplest form allows transactions to occur…
