16 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,…
Media Release
November 13, 2014 – Low income seniors face extremely heavy tax burdens across Canada, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Who Loses Most? The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Retirement Incomes,” authors Finn Poschmann and Alexandre Laurin show that seniors can be hit hard by taxes and benefit clawbacks in retirement.
“Our analysis shows that effective tax rates are very high for…
Media Release
April 9, 2014 - Ottawa’s unfunded liabilities for employee pension plans rose to $272 billion in 2013, far larger than reported, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute study. In “Ottawa’s Hidden Deficit: The Widening Gap between Federal Government Pension Liabilities and Assets,” authors William B.P. Robson and Alex Laurin find the value of federal employee pension promises is much larger…
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.…
