Fast-growing firms, in particular, play a disproportionate role in driving job creation and economic dynamism
Category: Entrepreneurs
Trudeau government looking at hiking capital gains tax
Just might be the single most damaging policy change the Liberal government could implement
Young entrepreneurs will lead the way for Canada
To ensure our economy is not bogged down with old ideas, we need bright, young people with fire in the belly and a taste for the new and innovative
Bringing Alberta’s waning economy back to life
Many of the Alberta economy’s best new ideas can’t get off the ground for lack of sufficient support from the province and its investors
Innovative risk-takers will resurrect our economy
But we need a policy regime that encourages these innovators to find new ideas, then gets out of their way while they pursue them
Tax policy obstructs growth of Canadian ‘knowledge-based’ economy
Discourages people from engaging in productive economic activity, including in the knowledge based activity
Alberta needs the will to rebuild its economy
To maintain its economy as the resource economy declines, Alberta must get serious about diversification
Big banks face Uber-like threat
Big banks will survive only if they adjust to a world where their traditional dominant position can no longer be taken for granted
Liberal plan to raise top-earners’ taxes will hurt economy
Poorly conceived personal income tax changes could result in the loss of more entrepreneurial high-income earners
Rate of decline in business start-ups in Canada reason for worry
It is critical that governments enact policies, including reforming the capital gains tax, supportive of entrepreneurship