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Published in the Financial Post on July 27, 2015 Lawrence L. Herman, founding partner at Herman & Associates, practices international trade law and is a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. Americans provide billions in protectionism to dairy that will have to be given up for trade deal. We rail against Canada’s supply management system. Rightly so. It’s a Soviet-style regime…

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Published in the Globe and Mail on April 21, 2015 By: Christopher Ragan Christopher Ragan is an associate professor of economics at McGill University in Montreal and a research fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute in Toronto. It’s natural for public discussion to focus on today’s problems and how to best solve them. But it’s also worthwhile to remind ourselves what past challenges we’ve…

Published in the National Post on May 22, 2015 By William Robson William Robson is president and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute. Economists may not be known for sartorial style, but they do have their fads. Influential ones, too — affecting our lives and livelihoods more than ups and downs in hemlines or the changing width of lapels. Among the more durable economic fashions has been…

The newly elected government in Ottawa has committed to increase the tax burden on the richest 1 per cent of earners and redistribute the proceeds by reducing the burden on middle-income earners. More specifically, the federal tax rate on taxable income greater than $200,000 would rise from 29 to 33 per cent. The tax rate on taxable income from $45,000 to $90,000 would drop from 22 to 20.5 per…