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Hugh Segal is principal of Massey College. He served in the Canadian Senate as a Conservative from Ontario and was vice-chair of the subcommittee on urban poverty. Every democracy’s internal legitimacy is tied to how fair the residents of that country feel their society is or tries to be. The fairness of laws, the fairness of government generally, the mix of fairness and opportunity…

April 19, 2017 – Cities across Canada should sell their electricity distribution companies and invest the proceeds in critical municipal infrastructure, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Surge Capacity: Selling City-owned Electricity Distributors to Meet Broader Municipal Infrastructure Needs,” author Steven Robins demonstrates why there is no compelling public policy rationale…

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…

Donald Trump campaigned on making a better NAFTA deal or walking away from the agreement entirely, and the impossible has become reality. The US Congress has redefined the US negotiating process, giving itself a larger role than it had when the Canada US Free Agreement and the first NAFTA were negotiated. On July 17, the US Trade Representative is expected to publish the US negotiating objectives…

January 24, 2017 – Providing a comprehensive, one-size-fits-all guaranteed annual income (GAI) is not the best solution to fighting poverty in Canada, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Toward a New Balance in Social Policy: The Future Role of Guaranteed Annual Income within the Safety Net,” author Peter Hicks urges policymakers to address poverty by using a “bottom-up”…

Dan Ciuriak, fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute and former deputy chief economist of Global Affairs Canada, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss his views on the NAFTA 2.0 deal kickoff amid the COVID-19 pandemic and what challenges lie ahead for US-Canada trade ties.