Reading Time: 3 minutes The Canadian economy continues to be weighed down by sluggish world growth and dismal commodity markets
Tag: Canadian economy
Economic freedom and Canada’s public policy schizophrenia
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Trudeau and Notley governments appear intent on repeating B.C.’s mistakes from the 1990s and Ontario’s today
Deficits in good times lead to trouble in bad times
Reading Time: 4 minutes Trudeau government has rejected the successful policies of the Chretien government in exchange for deficit-financed spending and higher taxes
Canada needs to recommit to prosperity-producing policies
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Chretien Consensus served Canadians well for more than a decade and can again
Finance minister former chair of CD Howe Institute
Reading Time: 4 minutes The research and ideas Morneau was exposed to during his time at the CD Howe Institute should help shape the Trudeau government’s policies
Trudeau should rethink the finance minister’s mandate
Reading Time: 4 minutes The prime minister has to seriously rethink some of the priorities
Canada’s deteriorating federal fiscal position
Reading Time: 3 minutes Budget deficits are once again becoming routine in Ottawa
Liberal plan to raise top-earners’ taxes will hurt economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Poorly conceived personal income tax changes could result in the loss of more entrepreneurial high-income earners
Trudeau shouldn’t follow Obama’s economic path
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canadians should hope the clear parallels between Obama and Trudeau don’t translate into economic performance
Memo to Finance Minister Bill Morneau
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada faces stiff economic headwinds and your largely uncosted election promises could easily amount to many billions of extra dollars