Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s unclear if the feds are doing higher-risk, lower-income mortgage debtors any real favours
Tag: Crown corporations
Via Rail should be shut down or sold by the federal government
Reading Time: 3 minutes Operational and funding costs are huge: $548M in 2019 (before COVID-19) and $597M in 2021
CBC has outlived its usefulness
Reading Time: 3 minutes The policy rationale for the existence of the CBC no longer meets the reality of the modern age
Want to pay for medical supplies? Stop funding CBC
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our health-care budgets were already greatly strained before the COVID-19 crisis; they’re completely blown out now
Manage provincial debt by controlling Crown projects
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Newfoundland and several other provinces, major power projects have created huge public debt
Take the jolt out of Manitoba’s excess power generation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Manitoba Hydro should look for ways to increase domestic demand by displacing non-renewable energy consumption
CMHC nudging more aggressively into housing market
Reading Time: 3 minutes The risk of housing price declines piles onto the risk CMHC already takes on when insuring mortgages
The case for privatizing Canada Post
Reading Time: 2 minutes Proceeds from the sale of Canada Post can be used to offset projected federal budget deficits
B.C. government should get out of the insurance business
Reading Time: 3 minutes ICBC represents an asset to the provincial government, which faces deficit problems
Has Saskatchewan Government Insurance outlived its purpose?
Reading Time: 3 minutes A private insurance corporation would be better suited to take on any risk, instead of leaving taxpayers to bear losses