Reading Time: 4 minutes Certainly there are factors beyond domestic control, but some simple regulatory changes and a general will to help industry will go a long way
Tag: Business Investment
Sluggish investment threatens Canada’s prosperity
Reading Time: 3 minutes The only way to raise living standards and incomes for Canadians is by building a more productive economy. Yet politicians are mum on the subject
We need more women driving agri-food innovation
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new report shows women are much more adept at driving change and managing results in startups, yet they struggle to find funding
Using money to bring fairness to Indigenous groups
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Lax Kw’alaams and Metlakatla need to put the Ridley Terminal money to work on things that will lead to future returns for their people
Moral investment constraints too onerous for pension funds
Reading Time: 3 minutes Never mind that reducing the choices available to a fund manager can result in negative consequences for pensioners
‘Ominous’ slip in Canadian business investment: C.D. Howe Institute
Reading Time: 2 minutes Weak investment puts Canada on a path to lower value-added jobs and living standards
Why Canadians won’t, or can’t, invest in their own country
Reading Time: 3 minutes C’mon Canadians, break out of the grim consensus, do your homework and invest your TSFA in the Canadian economy. The banks won’t
Dramatic drop in capital expenditures threatens Canada’s prosperity
Reading Time: 3 minutes Capital investment, particularly in machinery and equipment and intellectual property assets, is the major source of productivity growth and higher standards of living in developed countries.
Canadian business investment still sluggish: Fraser Institute
Reading Time: 3 minutes Drop in business investment from 2014 to 2017 is the most severe in at least 30 years
Bill C-69 is a loose, vague obstacle to development
Reading Time: 3 minutes The law is so full of giant holes that it could make things much worse for anyone planning a large project to improve our economy