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Less for Ottawa, More for Canadians: The C.D. Howe Institute’s 2024 Shadow Budget
The federal government’s 2023 Fall Economic Statement confirmed a troubling lack of concern about fiscal excess. It presented no credible plan to lower spending and borrowing to levels that would ensure fiscal sustainability and make room for tax changes to boost Canada’s stagnating productivity and living…
Research
The Study in Brief
A surging population of seniors. A surging demand for their care. And constrained government financial resources. That is the conundrum Canada faces in the years ahead. Solutions are needed quickly to increase capacity and services for seniors, especially those most in need.
This Commentary examines the availability of different housing and care options for seniors, the…
Media Release
May 2, 2024 – A new poll commissioned by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the C.D. Howe Institute indicates that three in five Canadians (60 percent) now believe “Canada does a very poor or poor job at developing a shared long-term vision for Canada’s energy future.”
This is a significant rise from 2021, when only 44 percent of Canadians held such negative views of the Canadian…
Intelligence Memos
From: Lennie Kaplan
To: Alberta budget observers
Date: February 2, 2024
Re: Alberta Needs Comprehensive Budget Stress Testing
Alberta’s revenue forecasting prowess is back in the spotlight as the province faces potential budget deficits over the next two fiscal years. Alberta has several revenue sources, most notably non-renewable resource revenues and corporate income taxes,…
Op-Ed
In the current debate about how to make housing affordable in Canada, there is a curious omission: the role of monetary policy, both of excessively loose monetary policy in creating the problem and of more responsible monetary policy in solving it.
The global financial crisis of 2008-09 led central banks around the world to reduce interest rates to historically low levels, which made…
Op-Ed
Just over two decades ago, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act put the regulation of corporate compliance on the map. It has since become a governance preoccupation, spawning armies of compliance professionals, commanding a substantial portion of every board’s agenda and costing hundreds of billions of dollars. Elaborate legal mechanisms — such as sentencing guidelines, whistleblowing regimes and personal…
