Reading Time: 3 minutes Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget fails to address sluggish economic growth and declining business investment
Tag: Canadian economy
Canada’s phoney debate about carbon taxes
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
Pipe dreams: Taking pipeline obstructionism to a whole new level
Reading Time: 3 minutes B.C.’s government seems intent on crippling the Canadian economy and tearing apart inter-provincial relations
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
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
Upcoming government budgets must focus on competitiveness
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadian governments have done nothing to signal to investors, entrepreneurs and businesses that they have a plan to return the country to competitiveness
The green agenda comes at a high cost for Canadians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Government green programs impose costs on third parties. Consumers and taxpayers must pay for those policies, and the environment actually suffers
Canada paying the price for pipeline intransigence
Reading Time: 3 minutes Increasingly, the U.S. will compete with Canada for oil export markets, while more of its domestic needs are met by its own producers
We lack the tools to manage the 21st century economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes The digital economy isn’t just another phase in the industrial era. It’s an entirely new paradigm, with new assets and a much different value creation formula