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Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on June 30, 2010
By Finn Poschmann
In 2009's G20 meetings in London and Pittsburgh, participating governments spoke of the urgent need for collective action to restore the global economy's functioning by spending "stimulus" money in record amounts, and to agree on speedy regulatory reforms that would restore stability to the financial marketplace.
Last weekend…
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Canada's Retirement Income System: The Role of Tax-Recognized Private Savings
Op-Ed
Published in the Telegraph Journal on October 2, 2010
By William Robson
Demographic change affects government budgets only gradually. In the mid-1990s, some advocates of a relaxed attitude toward aging-related increases in Canadian health-care costs compared them, not to an avalanche, but to a glacier. Intended to be soothing, the image is apt in a way those authors did not intend.
Even at a…
Op-Ed
Published in the National Post on November 19, 2010
By Michael Bliss
In a way that Canadians do not like to recognize, modern history has already passed stark and sobering judgment on Canadian medicare.
Despite the system's popularity and iconic status; despite the belief by many Canadian health experts that the Canada Health Act system, a single-payer government monopoly, is the best way to…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on November 30, 2010
By Mark Jaccard
At Cancun, Mexico this week, world leaders will try yet again to reach a global agreement on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The frequent excuse made by Canadian governments for inaction as part of reaching a global agreement is that the costs will be unfairly concentrated in specific regions.
Canadians certainly…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on September 27, 2010
By Mark Stabile
On Wednesday, the Government of Quebec announced it was dropping a proposal for a health-care deductible on users of doctors’ services. The deductible’s objectives were to raise money for the government and to increase people’s awareness of the cost of health care.
In most provinces, health-care expenditures continue to…
