8 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on September 30, 2014
By Åke Blomqvist and Colin Busby
Åke Blomqvist is an adjunct professor at Carleton University and health policy scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute. Colin Busby is a senior policy analyst at the Institute.
Cash-strapped provincial governments face a monumental challenge in the years ahead: Steeply increasing long-term care (LTC) costs,…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on October 27, 2014
By Randy Bauslaugh
Randy Bauslaugh is Partner, McCarthy Tetrault, and author of “Target Benefit plans: Improving Access for Federally Regulated Employees,” published by the C.D. Howe Institute.
The federal focus on protecting plan members, without regard to employers, scares federal employers.
Federal consultations have just…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe & Mail on February 12, 2014
By Alexandre Laurin
An understated highlight of the federal budget was that, for the first time in five years, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has a healthy baseline. His cumulative $45-billion surplus projected over the next five fiscal years would be the envy of most past federal finance ministers, not to mention Mr. Flaherty’s provincial…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on April 22, 2014
By Finn Poschmann
Minor reforms from the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions don’t eliminate the need for major changes
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions last week released its long awaited draft guidelines, known as B-21, on prudent behaviour for federally regulated mortgage insurers.…
Op-Ed
Published in the Toronto Star on March 28, 2014
By Keith Ambachtsheer
There’s broad agreement that Canada has a pension coverage problem. For example, only a fifth of Canadian private sector workers are members of an employment-based pension plan today. As a result, many of them are likely to face sharp reductions in their standard of living when they retire in the decades ahead.
With the lack…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on March 4, 2014
By Finn Poschmann
Ottawa is soon to release proposals on bank bail-ins, the process by which bank bondholders, who seem always to get bailed out when banks get into trouble, instead might be bailed-in, becoming shareholders. The idea is to avoid government bailouts of institutions that are thought too big to fail and to limit the damage…
