Investing in sport is a winning play
A functioning, healthy sport system is more important than ever in a time when the deliberate division of people and communities is far too common.
Minister Freeland should take a walk in beer industry workers’ shoes
The finance minister should cancel the largest beer tax increase in 40 years, and at the same time, preserve Canadian jobs and support middle-class families.
No easy outs: leaders should wrestle with tensions for a great budget
Budgets represent a set of difficult choices where society’s greatest needs come head to head with the cold reality of what our public finances can afford.
The federal government is failing Canadian health research
Canada risks losing out by inadequately investing in health researchers working to unlock new discoveries.
ArriveCan accountability remains top question as federal spending watchdog says she found ‘disappointing failures’ everywhere she looked
Canadians will lose faith in institutions if there are no consequences, says Aaron Wudrick. But it should be bureaucrats—not ministers—who wear the procurement failings, according to former PSPC ADM Alan Williams.
Road to Budget 2024 must be paved with bold, long-term housing fixes for all Canadians
One way to preserve and expand the inventory of affordable housing is through the creation of a federal housing acquisition fund.
Procurement ombud’s report reveals discrepancies in ArriveCan’s $54-million contract
Mandatory criteria used in ArriveCan application procurement were ‘overly restrictive’ and ‘favoured’ GC Strategies Inc. as an existing CBSA supplier, which led to the awarding of a $25-million contract to the company in the centre of misconduct allegations.
Trudeau government should eliminate agents of corporate welfare
There’s no reason to believe the federal government can cause ‘economic growth’ through Canada’s seven regional development agencies.
Liberals fail to provide leadership on green and digitalization transitions, opposition parties missing in action
What this paper from the three Innovation, Science and Economic Development analysts most importantly underlines is both the governmental failure to realistically acknowledge the big transitions we face, but also that, in the absence of a serious growth strategy going forward, we face a future of stagnation and the risk of a major brain and investment drain pursuit of greater opportunity elsewhere. That’s surely not what we want.
We need to build hope based on productive wealth creation: this is our biggest challenge
This is a world of despair, not hope. This extends well into the middle class, as consumer confidence surveys show. Per capita GDP continues to decline. As a consequence, social stability is becoming more at risk.
