20 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Op-Ed
With the worst of COVID-19 behind us, the federal government needs to re-focus on long-standing stresses, including tax rules that limit many Canadians from saving as much for retirement as they would like and may need, and that force them to draw their retirement saving down faster than is prudent.
MPs and federal public servants have tax-backed plans that guarantee them…
Intelligence Memos
From: Marcel Saulnier
To: Canadians Concerned About Healthcare
Date: November 29, 2023
Re: Getting on with National Pharmacare
Over four years ago, the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare set out a roadmap to address one of the most significant areas of unfinished business in Canadian medicare. Fast forward to the end of 2023, and there is scant evidence…
Op-Ed
Bill C-282 is a terrible piece of legislation. Yet it sailed through the House of Commons and is now in the Senate, the last hope for bringing some sanity to the matter.
Indications are that key senators, including Senator Peter Boehm, chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee, have serious problems with the Bill.
The Bill amends the Department of Foreign Affairs,…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canadian Energy Transition Watchers
From: Brian Livingston
Date: May 9, 2023
Re: The Big Electric Light Truck Challenge
Canadian transportation policy is now operating under a Zero Emissions Vehicle (ZEV) mandate that will soon have a binding effect as Canadians try to purchase their next vehicle, particularly light trucks.
The mandate requires sellers of light vehicles –…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson, Don Drummond and Alexandre Laurin
To: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland
Date: March 24, 2023
Re: Let’s Ditch Our Obsolete Retirement Tax Rules
With the worst of COVID-19 behind us, the federal government needs to re-focus on long-standing stresses, including tax rules that limit many Canadians from saving as much for retirement …
Intelligence Memos
From: John Weekes
To: The Senate of Canada
Date: October 13, 2023
Re: Making supply management untouchable would be a big mistake
There are three major negative impacts embedded in Bill C-282, a trade bill awaiting Senate approval that would prevent Canadian trade negotiators from ever ceding any ground on supply management.
First, gratuitously removing dairy, poultry and its…
