16 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Intelligence Memos
From: William Robson and Miles Wu
To: Municipal Councillors, Ratepayers and Voters
Date: January 21, 2021
Re: Grading Your Municipality’s Financial Transparency
After each release of the C.D. Howe Institute’s annual report card on the financial transparency of Canada’s major cities, we get requests from councillors, ratepayers and residents in other places for additions to the report. We wish we…
Intelligence Memos
From: Marcel Boyer
To: Canada’s Debt Watchers
Date: January 7, 2021
Re: The Pervasive Economic Error in Assessing the Cost of Public Funds
In the assessment of the cost of public funds, a pervasive economic fallacy is dogma in both the private and public sectors as well as in academia: since the cost of borrowing is higher for a private sector firm than it is for a…
Intelligence Memos
From: Joel Balyk, Benjamin Dachis and Charles DeLand
To: Alberta oil royalty regulators
Date: October 18, 2021
Re: Alberta’s Outdated Oil Sands Royalty Regime Needs a Fix
Canada’s oil sands accounted for 63 percent of oil production in Canada in 2019, and their royalties have been the source of 7.7 percent of Alberta’s revenues since 2008.
The province regularly reviews the royalty…
Intelligence Memos
From: Lawrence Herman
To: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Date: May 18, 2021
Re: Line 5: A White House Missing in Action
The battle over Enbridge Line 5 – unfolding in a Michigan courtroom - shows how declarations of friendship between Canadian and US governments are hostage to local politics.
Last February, the Prime Minister and the US President concluded a Roadmap for a Renewed US…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson
To: Canadians Concerned about Inflation
Date: April 5, 2021
Re: Is Inflation Back? In the End, it’s a Question of Politics
Suddenly, inflation is in the news. In Canada and abroad, spending is surging and COVID-impaired production is struggling to keep up. Key commodities – oil, lumber and metals – are expensive.
It is front-of-mind in financial…
Intelligence Memos
From: Lawrence Herman
To: Canadians concerned about trade
Date: January 29, 2021
Re: Compensation, Not Sanctions, for Keystone
Keystone XL is dead. Everyone knows that. Nothing can force the Biden administration to reissue the construction permit. The fight is now over any compensation owed to owner TC Energy Corp. by the US government.
Even though it was endorsed by the…
