Canada must not cave to U.S. demands on digital tax plans
A tax on digital corporations is long overdue in Canada. At a time when governments face no shortage of spending priorities—from climate action to pandemic recovery—countries cannot afford to postpone unilateral action to recover tax revenues.
Alternatives to the blunt tool of interest rate hikes needed to curb inflation
If there is another way to fix the economy, it must be done by the government, not the Bank of Canada. With grocery profits seeming to increase weekly, more needs to be done in that area.
If inflation is a disease, central bankers are offering a quack cure: Larry Kazdan
Economic damage mounts from failure to fight anti-competitive business practices
Competition Commissioner Matthew Boswell’s latest report says the current state of the grocery business hurts consumers and does not drive companies to lower their prices.
‘Painful’ interest rate hikes are working, but nothing to ‘celebrate,’ as Liberals find political ‘cover’ but not ‘relief’: observers
A full-point drop in headline inflation puts the government on a ‘good trajectory,’ but the ‘last mile’ will be the ‘toughest,’ says former Liberal staffer Elliot Hughes.
Canada should be aspiring to be more than a branch-plant economy
If we want a more independent Canada, we have to build the talent, own the tech, and grow firms so wealth is created here and the critical decisions for our future are made by the people who live here with the biggest stake in what kind of country we can become.
Rewriting the Bank of Canada’s playbook as the post-COVID economy defies all expectations
It seems certain that the expectations of how people react to a tighter credit environment will have to be rethought.
Empowering Indigenous prosperity and reconciliation with economy
The federal government can empower Indigenous ingenuity by listening to Indigenous voices, providing access to affordable capital, and making necessary policy changes.
Canada better start playing the long game, now
We need an economic council of some of our best minds who can, with the future in mind, analyze policy issues, better frame public understanding of the issues, look at what currently works and doesn’t work, and outline policy directions for the future.
Canada’s not broken, but it can do much better
Canada needs to create an economic council that brings together our best minds in non-partisan work for a prosperous, sustainable, and equitable future. Canada is not broken, but we have to really improve.
