19 results found for "guaranteed annual income"
Media Release
November 1, 2012 – While Ottawa’s proposed reforms to the pension plans of federal employees and MPs are a move in the right direction, the deep flaws in these plans require more fundamental revisions, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Federal Employee Pension Reforms: First Steps – on a Much Longer Journey,” authors William B.P. Robson and Alexandre…
Media Release
August 16, 2012 – Retiring babyboomers are driving a shift from retirement-fund accumulation to decumulation, but they need better choices to protect against longevity risk, according to a report released today by the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Annuities and Your Nest Egg: Reforms to Promote Optimal Annuitization of Retirement Capital,” the University of Calgary’s Norma Nielson says to…
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…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on March 30, 2012
By William Robson and Alexandre Laurin
Since Jim Flaherty became federal Finance Minister in 2006, circumstances have forced a series of budget improvisations. The 2008 financial crisis and the slump in 2009 put the minority Conservative government in lend-and-spend mode, and the fiscal aftermath and the continuing need to appease multiple…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on March 28, 2012
By Colin Busby and Alexandre Laurin
Ontario’s controversial deficit-cutting budget, tabled Tuesday, will be passed around like a political hot potato by opposition parties at Queen’s Park. Should it get enough votes to pass parliament, it would sprinkle cost-cutting measures across provincial programs, freeze planned reductions in corporate income…
