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Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson
To: Borrowers and Investors
Date: February 28, 2022
Re: Inflation May Be a Surprise – Higher Interest Rates Should Not Be
Statistics Canada’s latest inflation report showed the consumer price index up 5.1 percent year-over-year in January – more than forecasters and markets expected and more than the Bank of Canada’s latest projections implied. That’s…
Media Release
August 4, 2022 – At the five-month mark, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine has the heavy cost of US$8.9 trillion conservatively, a loss equivalent to more than four times the entire annual income of all Canadians. The estimates include human costs of $4.7 trillion, concentrated in Ukraine, but affecting people worldwide as the impacts of the war spread, according to a new report…
Research
The Study In Brief
In Canada, most government cash benefit payments require recipients to file a tax return. Individuals who fail to participate in the tax system, often the most vulnerable in society, may forgo important government benefits (or even entitlements to government services when such services are tied to tax return information). The September 2020 Speech from the Throne committed the…
Intelligence Memos
From: William B.P. Robson and Nick Dahir
To: Canadian Taxpayers
Date: September 21, 2022
Re: It’s Fall – Time Governments Told You Where Your Money Went
We are more than half-way through September. The fiscal years of Canada’s senior governments ended almost six months ago.
If these governments were companies listed on Canadian stock exchanges, rules for transparency and accountability to the…
Intelligence Memos
To: Bank of Canada Governing Council
From: Ed Devlin and Anders Forssell
Date: August 22, 2022
Re: Quantitative Tightening May Cause Unexpected Trouble
After bridging the unprecedented pandemic lockdown, we now have inflation the likes of which we haven’t seen in 40 years. In response, the Bank of Canada (BoC) has hiked the overnight rate at a dizzying pace – 2.25 percentage points to-date. It is…
Intelligence Memos
From: Chris Bonnett
To: Pharmacare Watchers
Date: April 7, 2022
Re: The Phoenix of National Pharmacare
The Liberal-New Democratic Party agreement last month contained four healthcare goals: Universal national pharmacare, an income-tested dental care program, a Safe Long-Term Care Act and intergovernmental cooperation to improve health outcomes.
Each is ambitious, especially in…
