94 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on Dec 16, 2010
By Jan Carr and Benjamin Dachis
In attempts to stimulate the creation of “green” jobs and technologies, some jurisdictions around the world have created programs that guarantee renewable electricity generators payments per kilowatt-hour (kWh) that are much higher than market prices. This approach of paying a premium to certain generators to…
Op-Ed
Earlier this month, the Alberta government launched a NAFTA investment arbitration suit against the United States, seeking $1.3-billion as compensation for President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline. TC Energy, the company behind KXL, has filed its own NAFTA case, but Alberta is now seeking compensation for the province’s investment in the pipeline.
The case is…
Op-Ed
The long-awaited ruling in the Cambie case, Dr. Brian Day’s challenge to British Columbia’s Medicare Protection Act, has upheld the rules that effectively bar private provision of publicly covered medical services. But it does not say whether suppressing privately funded care, as the act seeks to do, is good policy. It is not. Absent some degree of competition from private care, the Canadian…
Event
Join us for a briefing on why a comprehensive, one-size-fits-all Guaranteed Annual Income should not be seen as the ideal goal by policymakers. Long-standing social objectives, including antipoverty goals, can be met by a more multidimensional understanding of poverty and by developing a new generation of social programs.
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Advocates of the expanded CPP call the new plan “fully funded,” and emphasize the security and reliability of its promised benefits. In an uncertain world, however, even the Canada Pension Plan makes no guarantees. Ottawa and the provinces should explain the risks of the plan more clearly, and create new regulations to protect younger Canadians by limiting potential contribution-rate increases.…
Op-Ed
In the Thursday, February 28, 2008 edition of the Calgary Herald, reporter Geoffrey Scotton discusses a recent C.D. Howe Institute report, which suggests energy windfalls could leave Alberta unprepared for a market downturn or an inevitable slowdown in oil production. Cited in the article is Colin Busby, a Policy Analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute and author of the aforementioned study, who…
