Reading Time: 3 minutes A carbon tax added on top of the various bans, subsidies and tariff we already have in place only worsens regulatory inefficiencies
Category: Business
Balancing Alberta’s budget by 2023-24 isn’t good enough
Reading Time: 3 minutes Albertans have more debt, continued reliance on volatile natural resource revenue and higher taxes to look forward to
Raising minimum wages: good intentions, bad policy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Raising the minimum wage is a flawed strategy for achieving the critically important social objective of raising people out of poverty
B.C.’s budget cools the economic climate
Reading Time: 4 minutes The B.C. budget does little to improve the investment climate or mitigate the effects of policy changes emanating from the U.S.
Minimum wage hikes serving up uncertainty in food industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes A 32 per cent increase in the minimum wage in 12 months is simply irresponsible
One big asteroid could ruin the mining industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes The space race is on and the payoff is an untold cache of precious metals, large enough to completely dwarf the world’s biggest mining companies
Is Ottawa really committed to new resource development?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s doubtful. Its plan to “improve” the NEB actually makes it more difficult and costly for business to navigate
Pipelines are crucial to national prosperity
Reading Time: 3 minutes The battle between Alberta and B.C. over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion has broad implications for all Canadians
Trudeau fiddles while Canada burns
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada is becoming a balkanized union of mini-fiefdoms at the mercy of Big Environment and narrow provincial interests
Digging into mining investment growth
Reading Time: 3 minutes Mining investors will flock to jurisdictions that have attractive policies, and capital will follow, along with the ancillary benefits of jobs and tax revenue