Reading Time: 5 minutes Governments boasted of having “Canadians backs” while failing to provide basic health services, rapid testing, comprehensive tracing, and the timely roll-out of vaccinations
Author: Philip Cross
Philip Cross spent 36 years at Statistics Canada, the last few years as its Chief Economic Analyst. He wrote Statistics Canada's monthly assessment of the economy for years, as well as many feature articles for the Canadian Economic Observer. After leaving Statistics Canada, he worked for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Canadian business growth stymied by governments
Reading Time: 3 minutes Red tape, rising taxes, tax reform, increasing minimum wages and other policy initiatives all smother business investment
It is a myth that Canada has a retirement income crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even after deducting debt of $1.8 trillion, Canadians are left with an accumulated net worth of $7.8 trillion outside the formal pension system
Canada Pension Plan is not ‘low cost’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite its reputation, the cost of the CPP is actually above the average for comparable plans
Duration of slow economic growth greatly exaggerated
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pessimism over growth an overreaction to the current economic environment