Reading Time: 3 minutes Abandoning their promise on electoral reform was a good start, but now they must also reverse course on more of their high-profile promises
Tag: Taxation
Canada needs a strong Alberta economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recent census gives Canadians a sense of the outsized role Alberta has played in powering Canada’s economy
Trudeau’s challenges: Trump, taxes and energy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s tax and energy advantages are coming to a sudden end, and we should expect businesses will move more investment to the U.S.
Carbon tax exacerbates harm from other tax hikes in Alberta
Reading Time: 3 minutes The gradual increase in Alberta’s carbon tax in coming years will exacerbate the economic damage being done to the province
Could Trump save the Canadian dairy industry from itself?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadian dairy producers have long refused to admit that the system fails the dairy supply chain and consumers
Notley’s tax hikes compounded a bad year for Alberta
Reading Time: 3 minutes Aside from the approval of two crucial pipeline projects, Alberta didn’t have much to celebrate in 2016
Yes, the Alberta tax advantage is gone
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Notley government’s decision to undermine Alberta’s tax advantage by increasing tax rates has harmed the province’s growth prospects
Why the Alberta Advantage was flawed from the beginning
Reading Time: 3 minutes Any economic strategy needs to focus on helping all Albertans over the long term, and counting on a volatile energy industry is not the answer
Feds should eliminate special tax preferences but ….
Reading Time: 3 minutes … not to simply increase revenue but to use the extra revenue to reduce overall tax rates
Highway robbery: the case against toll roads
Reading Time: 3 minutes The argument in favour of tolls in Toronto fails on several levels, even for those whose fiscal persuasion is conservative