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Tomorrow, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will reveal his picks for cabinet, and the C.D. Howe Institute has tapped Canada’s top policy experts to provide guidance to the new ministers.
In the Ministerial Mandate Letters series, the Institute provides a checklist for incoming ministers, setting out the crucial policy issues they will need to grapple with, and providing smart solutions for them…
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Low-income Canadian families with children encounter high “all-inclusive” tax rates that could discourage parents from working more or entering the workforce, argues a new C.D. Howe Institute report.
In “The Paycheck Blues: Why Extra Work is often Not Worth the Effort for Lower-income Families,” author Alexandre Laurin finds that parents with children may lose a significant chunk of their take-…
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Over the period from 1999 to 2016, the wealth (net worth and total assets) of Canadians approaching retirement who were in the middle of the wealth distribution grew quite strongly in constant dollars, according to a new working paper from the C.D. Howe Institute.
In “The Evolving Wealth of Canadians Approaching Retirement,” author Bob Baldwin points out the growth in wealth was notably stronger…
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November 12, 2019 – New OECD proposals on digital taxation would mean a substantial overhaul of Canadian tax rules if they are brought into effect, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute.
In “The Big Shakeup: Making Sense of the OECD Digital Tax Proposals,” authors Jeffrey Trossman and Jeffrey Shafer examine recent proposals from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and…