Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s doubtful. Its plan to “improve” the NEB actually makes it more difficult and costly for business to navigate
Tag: Trudeau government
Systemic racism or a protected, impartial process?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Gerald Stanley-Colten Boushie case has touched off a firestorm that reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how our legal system works
Any pension fund fiasco is one too many
Reading Time: 4 minutes The plight of Sears pensioners has once again ignited calls for change but the federal government seems content to sit on its hands
Canada’s new superclusters could just be black holes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The government thinks that if industry doesn’t see fit to use its own money to stimulate innovation, perhaps taxpayer money should be the fire starter
Feel-good budget is fine, but don’t forget economic essentials
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are limits on what removing discrimination can do: fair taxation, fewer regulations and infrastructure should be the focus of the next federal budget
Crossing the hard line between the judiciary and politics
Reading Time: 2 minutes Politicians are beginning to signal they feel they have the right to tweet their disagreement with any court decision they donʼt like
Ballooning federal deficit will only worsen if economy sours
Reading Time: 3 minutes Based on historic trends, Canada is due for an economic slowdown. This means the government needs to move toward a balanced budget now
Indigenous businessman decries Canada Summer Jobs edict as ‘insidious’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Compares the government’s rule change to the reviled Indian Act for imposing ironclad status-quo thinking
Are we really jeopardizing NAFTA over a regressive farm policy?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government should deregulate supply-managed commodities, and tariffs should be abolished on imports of dairy and poultry products
Deboning the backbone of the Canadian economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes No one doubts that Canada needs tax reform. But there’s filleting and then there’s butchering