Reading Time: 3 minutes If CETA is ratified any time soon, and that is becoming more doubtful every day, agricultural issues will likely be left out
Month: June 2016
How Brexit will affect Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Britain’s withdrawal from Europe may hurt Canada’s access to the much-larger European markets
Band-Aids won’t work long for Ontario’s crumbling schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes $1.2 billion in new funding towards badly needed repairs doesn’t come close to the $15 billion Ontario schools need
Expanded CPP will lead to reduction in private savings
Reading Time: 3 minutes And that means less money for a home down payment, education upgrading, to cover emergencies and for your beneficiaries
Brexit places globalization on the line
Reading Time: 3 minutes Globalization is still the best way for individual economies, and a competitive marketplace, to thrive
People need less money to live as they get older? Not!
Reading Time: 3 minutes What we really need is an evidence-based public conversation about the consumption and income needs of Canadian seniors
Stephen Harper earned my enduring respect
Reading Time: 3 minutes 10 reasons why I did not detest Stephen Harper
Cameron may have lit the fuse, but EU provided the powder keg
Reading Time: 3 minutes The EU made a terrible mistake in the early ’90s by choosing to massively enlarge its membership rather than strengthening its core
Convention demands a referendum on electoral reform
Reading Time: 3 minutes Any attempt by the Trudeau government to do so without consent from the electorate may be unconstitutional because it breaks conventional practice
China’s serving up a dilemma for Canadian agriculture
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s meat industry will suffer if China’s move to lower consumption is successful