15 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
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…
Intelligence Memos
From: Colin Busby
To: Retirement savings observers
Date: September 25, 2023
Re: RRSP or TFSA? Canadians Need Help to Make the Call
A successful savings plan is the product of both how much is saved and the returns on those savings, which one could call saving efficiency. This second aspect of savings decisions is often overlooked. Given the importance of tax treatment to effective savings, how…
Intelligence Memos
From: Will Falk and Trevor Jamieson
To: Canadian Healthcare Observers
Date: May 8, 2023
Re: A National Digital Health Architecture is Long Overdue. Let’s Get Going
Digital health is vital for healthcare and its governance and legislative framework should be a broader federal government responsibility – not just a healthcare issue.
Canada’s national digital health…
Intelligence Memos
To: Competition Policy Watchers
From: Paul A. Johnson
Date: April 13, 2023
Re: Canada Should Not Restrict Competition with Bright Line Rules
The federal government is currently re-examining Canada’s Competition Act. Such re-examination is natural and useful – especially given the paucity of Canadian competition jurisprudence, which can give a single decided case outsized significance and cause…
Intelligence Memos
From: Lawrence Herman
To: Canadians concerned about trade
Date: August 30, 2023
Re: Only the Senate Can Rescue us from the Latest Dairy Power Play
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…
