7 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on July 27, 2015
Lawrence L. Herman, founding partner at Herman & Associates, practices international trade law and is a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto.
Americans provide billions in protectionism to dairy that will have to be given up for trade deal.
We rail against Canada’s supply management system. Rightly so. It’s a Soviet-style regime…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on July 16, 2015
By Thorsten V. Koeppl and James MacGee
Thorsten V. Koeppl is Associate Professor and RBC Fellow, Department of Economics, Queen’s University; and Scholar in Financial Services and Monetary Policy, C.D. Howe Institute. James MacGee is Associate Professor of Economics, Western University, and a Research Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute.…
Op-Ed
By Finn Poschmann
Few Canadians may have heard of them, yet covered bonds, an important bank funding mechanism, have taken a place near the heart of the financial system. How big a place that should be, and how close to the heart, will be a question for whoever forms the next government in Ottawa – and this will matter to housing finance.
Covered bonds have been around for centuries – capital…
Op-Ed
By Christpoher Ragan
Several issues of fiscal policy were highlighted in the recent federal election campaign, including budget deficits, spending on infrastructure, changes in tax rates for middle– and upper-income Canadians, and reforms to child-benefit programs. But one issue absent from the debate was a longer-term challenge: the return of Canada’s “fiscal imbalance” between the various…
Op-Ed
Published in the Toronto Star on November 26, 2014
By: Benjamin Dachis
Benjamin Dachis is a senior policy analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute and the author of “Congestive Traffic Failure: The Case for High-Occupancy and Express Toll Lanes in Canadian Cities.”
The Pan Am Games will last only a few weeks next summer. But the province wants the benefits from the Games to last long afterward. Its…
Op-Ed
Published in The Hamilton Spectator on January 17, 2015
By: Åke Blomqvist and Colin Busby
Åke Blomqvist is an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University and Health Policy Scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute, where Colin Busby is a Senior Policy Analyst.
Voucher-based cost-sharing system would tailor care to seniors’ needs
The blocked hospital bed crisis in Hamilton —…
