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Intelligence Memos
From: Grant Bishop To: Climate policy observers Date: November 14, 2023 Re:  Ottawa Needs to Get Back to Carbon Pricing Basics Last month, a Supreme Court majority held that the core of the federal Impact Assessment Act (IAA) is unconstitutional – a “Trojan horse” of federal overreach into provincial jurisdiction. Amid much criticism, this legislation was enacted in 2019 under Bill…
Intelligence Memos
This week, we present the three top finishers in the C.D. Howe Institute Intelligence Memo competition, which was open to graduate students across the country. Today, our first co-winner. To: Canadian innovation policy leaders  From: Joe McKinnon  Date: October 23, 2023  Re: It’s Time to Reprioritize Fundamental Research  Significant investments in fundamental research are needed…
Op-Ed
Canada’s governments recently came to broad agreement on renewing federal-provincial health transfers. Ottawa asked the provinces and territories to modernize Canadians’ access to their electronic health information with “standardized health data and digital tools.” Bilateral negotiation will define the details of these digital aspirations. Canadians should pay attention: their health…
Intelligence Memos
 From: Åke Blomqvist To: Canadians concerned about healthcare Date: July 10, 2023 Subject: Nightmarish Commercial Simply Wrong: Healthcare Outsourcing is not Privatization Following passage of the Ontario government’s Bill 60, the Ministry of Health has the option to contract out to independent clinics the provision of certain kinds of healthcare …
Intelligence Memos
From: Trevor Jamieson and Ewan Affleck To: Canadian Healthcare Observers Date: May 25, 2023 Re: Better health depends on better health data Canada’s governments recently came to broad agreement on renewing federal-provincial health transfers. Ottawa asked the provinces and territories to modernize Canadians’ access to their electronic health information with “…
Research
The Study In Brief The surge of inflation as economies recovered from the COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 took central bankers and most other observers by surprise. Canada was no exception. Year-over-year CPI inflation rose from -0.4 percent at its nadir in May 2020, to a peak of 8.1 percent in June 2022 before finishing 2022 at 6.3 percent. In this E-Brief, we start with a short overview of…