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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…
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…
Op-Ed
Has anyone ever looked at their paycheque and said, “I sure wish they’d take more of my money”?
That was the question posed by federal Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose Monday as federal and provincial finance ministers met in Vancouver to discuss proposals to expand the Canada Pension Plan. In the end, they agreed on a sizable expansion of the CPP. Is this what Canadians really want?
I honestly…
Op-Ed
In the Tuesday, May 13, 2008 edition of the Toronto Star, reporter James Daw cites the findings of Finn Poschmann, Director of Research at the C.D. Howe Institute and Jon Kesselman of Simon Fraser University in an article on how RRSPs and pension plans can deprive seniors of low-income benefits. Poschmann states that by contributing to a traditional RRSP, a senior could lose 50 cents per…
