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Intelligence Memos
From: Eloise Duncan
To: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland
Date: October 28, 2021
Re: Financial Resilience Index: a New Tool to Refine Income Support
Governments were generous and broad in their financial support during the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the economy returns to a normal state – and fiscal positions remain under strain – it is imperative that any future stimulus be targeted. …
Podcast
We welcome back RBC's John Stackhouse and Cynthia Leach to discuss how an estimated $280B saved by Canadian households during the pandemic will impact economic recovery, and what role public policy should play in guiding Canada out of the pandemic tunnel and into the light.
Intelligence Memos
From: Don Drummond
To: The Office of the Prime Minister
Date: August 24, 2020
Re: Don't Forget a Fiscal Anchor for the Speech from the Throne
Prime Minister Trudeau has indicated the government will disclose expensive initiatives to Canadians in a Speech from the Throne on September 23.
Without also proposing very large tax increases, this new agenda would clearly abandon any…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on March 22, 2012
By Philip Cross
Recently, the CBC released a DVD set featuring all its televised work of Glenn Gould. One of the interesting non-musical items was his hour-long film calledThe Idea of North, a reminder of the recurring if intermittent Canadian infatuation with our Northern frontier. We seem to be in one of those moods these days, with annual photo…
Intelligence Memos
From: Alexandre Laurin and Benjamin Dachis
To: Finance Minister Bill Morneau
Date: May 25, 2020
Re: An Income Support Plan to Support the Recovery
The first cohort of Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) recipients are about to lose eligibility on July 5. Ottawa must announce soon what’s next.
As the province-by-province restart begins, income support needs to shift from broad-…
Op-Ed
The accumulation of past failures in fighting poverty has breathed new life into proposals to introduce a basic income, also known as a Guaranteed Annual Income. Ontario, for example, has a pilot project underway championed by former senator Hugh Segal. But, is the basic income approach, where governments provide direct financial support to low-income people, the best approach?
Basic income…
