Reading Time: 3 minutes To increase productive growth investment, the government has to start with the banks
Tag: 2015 Canadian election
Canada’s political parties economically illiterate
Reading Time: 3 minutes A simple cost/benefit analysis would kibosh many of their proposals
A balanced budget no miracle cure for ailing Canadian economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Proposing a balanced budget reflects a failure to grasp the modern economic role of government
Political parties corrupting representative government
Reading Time: 4 minutes The power of political parties and modern communications has corrupted the practical reality of representative government
Why First Nations peoples should vote for Harper
Reading Time: 3 minutes At least the Harper Conservatives have a plan, beyond expressing platitudes
How the Canadian economy can get out of the mess it’s in
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Canadian economy is vulnerable today because ‘markets’ couldn’t care less about Canada’s, or anyone’s, standard of living
2015 election could have far reaching political consequences for Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The 2015 vote could lead to deep uncertainty about how we’ll even choose our Parliament in the future
Wait times continue to drag health care outcomes down
Reading Time: 3 minutes It will take political courage to improve Canada’s health care system
The reality, rhetoric and ‘rithmetic of childcare
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to understand – and measure – the problem before we dive into expensive fixes
Trudeau, Mulcair autobiographies election season pap
Reading Time: 3 minutes Trudeau’s autobiography reads like it was written by committee; Mulcair’s is not telling the whole story