11 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Intelligence Memos
From: John Richards
To: Concerned Canadians
Date: August 31, 2017
Re: A Back to School Wake-up Call
In an industrial age, whether a country educates its children well is perhaps the most important determinant of whether the next generation will be prosperous or poor, whether income inequality will be high or low.
Good schools are not a panacea for avoiding all social ills, but weak schools are a…
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…
Intelligence Memos
From: Parisa Mahboubi
To: Canada’s ministers of education and skills development
Date: November 20, 2017
Re: High Education, Lower Literacy: What to Do?
Canada’s workforce has experienced a troubling slide in literacy and numeracy skills, despite higher levels of education and improvements in learning technology.
In my report last week I compared results of international…
Intelligence Memos
From: Thorsten Koeppl
To: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Date: May 18, 2017
Re: What the “Terminator” Tells Us about Blockchain and your Privacy
The Blockchain revolution is here. And, in many ways, it is like the Internet was when it started 20 years ago. We did not know how we would be affected, but we all had a feeling that this is going to be big. After…
Intelligence Memos
To: The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour
From: Rosalie Wyonch
Date: September 12, 2017
Re: Let’s Untangle Work Integrated Learning
The Government of Canada is rolling out a $73-million investment in the Student Work-Integrated Learning Program to create 10,000 paid student work placements over the next four years and “help bridge…
Intelligence Memos
From: Christopher Sands and Colin MacKenzie
To: Concerned Canadians
Date: July 13, 2017
Re: New Rules for NAFTA
As renegotiation on the North American Free Trade Agreement gets underway there is one fundamental change on the US side that promises to change the dynamic.
This time there are 535 extra chefs in the kitchen.
Under detailed two-year-old rules governing all US trade negotiations,…
