219 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Op-Ed
By Finn Poschmann
Published in the Financial Post on March 22, 2012
The federal budget due March 29 almost certainly will unveil the government’s thinking on the future of the Canadian covered bond market. This may prove strangely important, because covered bonds lie at the heart of one of the most contentious public policy issues in the Canadian financial system.
The bonds are “covered” because…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B. P. Robson
To: Canada's Pension Regulators
Date: February 9, 2018
Re: Ontario’s Latest Turn in the Vicious Circle of Government Pension Guarantees
The trauma of pensioners left short when the sponsor of an underfunded plan goes bust prompts regular calls for government pension backstops. In Ontario, the only Canadian jurisdiction with such a program, these…
Op-Ed
The accumulation of past failures in fighting poverty has breathed new life into proposals to introduce a basic income, also known as a Guaranteed Annual Income. Ontario, for example, has a pilot project underway championed by former senator Hugh Segal. But, is the basic income approach, where governments provide direct financial support to low-income people, the best approach?
Basic income…
Intelligence Memos
Bishop, Shaffer – As Electricity Demand Sinks, Ontario Power Costs Rise 24 Percent With More to Come
From: Grant Bishop and Blake Shaffer
To: Greg Rickford, Ontario Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
Date: April 21, 2020
Re: As electricity demand sinks, Ontario power costs rise 24 percent with more to come
Many Ontario businesses can expect a surge in their power bills even with the pandemic driven fall in demand and real-time wholesale prices for electricity.
These effects are…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on July 27, 2015
Lawrence L. Herman, founding partner at Herman & Associates, practices international trade law and is a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto.
Americans provide billions in protectionism to dairy that will have to be given up for trade deal.
We rail against Canada’s supply management system. Rightly so. It’s a Soviet-style regime…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on July 16, 2015
By Thorsten V. Koeppl and James MacGee
Thorsten V. Koeppl is Associate Professor and RBC Fellow, Department of Economics, Queen’s University; and Scholar in Financial Services and Monetary Policy, C.D. Howe Institute. James MacGee is Associate Professor of Economics, Western University, and a Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.…
