Reading Time: 3 minutes You don’t have to be an economist to know that rising interest rates will hurt a lot of Canadians but especially young families
Tag: Canadian economy
Canadians’ US$38-million-a-day gift to Americans
Reading Time: 4 minutes Failure to build pipelines leaves us with no choice but to sell our oil to the U.S. at cheap prices, leaving it to sell its own oil at the international price
Canada’s next 150 years
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the face of changes and challenges, we can ensure a great future by using the hardiness, bravery and creativity that we have displayed throughout our history
Why Trudeau and Notley are right to support pipeline expansion
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need the Trans Mountain project in order to protect the environment, keep costs in control, ensure the safety of workers and bolster the nation’s economy
Ring of Fire: burning down a rare economic opportunity
Reading Time: 3 minutes First Nations can’t veto development in northern Ontario. They must engage in good faith, just like business and governments, and not squander this opportunity
Fed’s per-person spending among highest in history
Reading Time: 3 minutes The main rationale of the added spending by the Trudeau government was to stimulate economic growth, an unnecessary goal
Why NAFTA and Canada are important to the U.S. economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes An open letter to President Trump as the U.S. prepares to renegotiate NAFTA
Canada’s investment recession drags on
Reading Time: 3 minutes The collapse of global oil prices, coupled with weak prices in other commodity markets, a key factor behind Canada’s investment slump
Liberal Finance Minister Morneau detached from economic reality
Reading Time: 4 minutes The minister of finance seems worryingly detached from the policies of his ministry, their effect and the state of the economy
Trudeau government ditches another fiscal pledge
Reading Time: 4 minutes Broken promises put the country’s finances at considerable risk as the Liberal government keeps moving the goalposts on balancing the budget