9 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…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on April 26, 2012
By Gerard Boychuk
Having won the Alberta election, Premier Alison Redford is now setting her sights on providing leadership in establishing the national agenda on health-care reform. In doing so, she won’t be able to ignore the issue of patient wait times. Wildrose may have lost the election, but it did propose some ideas in this regard that are…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on January 12, 2012
By James P. Feehan
Amid flags and fanfare in November 2010, Newfoundland and Labrador’s Danny Williams announced that the long awaited hydroelectric development of the Lower Churchill River was finally at hand. With premiers, energy executives and Innu leaders sharing the stage, all were agreed: A new plant would be built at Muskrat Falls in…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on June 13, 2012
By Alexandre Laurin, Kevin Milligan and Tammy Schirle
It's a simple fact -- Canadians are living longer. Many Canadians are also working longer and might want to delay taking up their retirement benefits. Recent changes to Old Age Security are designed to encourage flexible choice for retirement, applying an actuarial adjustment to the pension…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on August 7, 2012
By Benjamin Dachis
Many see the emerging rift between Alberta and British Columbia over compensation for the Northern Gateway pipeline as hampering energy development by stalling the creation of a national energy strategy. However, calls for a strategy may themselves be the fundamental cause of the political fallout.
Alberta Premier Alison Redford…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on September 14, 2012
By Daniel Schwanen
The overwhelming reaction from experts to the friendly bid by China National Offshore Oil Corp. for Calgary-based Nexen Inc. has been to urge Canada to be “strategic” in its response to the deal. Indeed, we should be – but being strategic should not mean making policy on the fly.
In late 2007, the Canadian government issued…
