Canada disappoints at global anti-corruption summit
Canada is a good place to incorporate an anonymous shell company. The Panama Papers leak revealed that this is exactly how Mossack Fonseca marketed Canada to its clients, reinforcing a recent academic study that found that Canada was one of the easiest countries in which to register a company without proper identification. The degree of […]
Politics this morning: Paul Martin portrait to be unveiled
Good morning, It’s Wednesday, May 11. Here’s 10 must-know topics to start your day. Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that he would be travelling to Fort McMurray on Friday. He came under heavy fire for declining international offers of assistance from countries such as Russia, Mexico, Israel, and the U.S. to help fight the […]
High schools should teach financial literacy: Chagger
Canada’s small business and tourism minister wants to see more high schools in Canada teaching financial literacy. Minister of Small Business and Tourism Bardish Chagger (Waterloo, Ont.) told a May 10 Ottawa panel that she has been crisscrossing the country “encouraging women to take the leap into business.” She said the issue of women’s lack […]
Hindsight 20/20? Shared Services bosses say 2020 deadline can’t be met under current parameters
Shared Services Canada will be unable to meet the 2020 deadline for completing its mandate of modernizing and amalgamating all of government IT without either more money or reducing the scope of its work, department executives said last week. Shared Services president Ron Parker and chief operating officer John Glowacki told The Hill Times in an interview that, as […]
Senate Internal Economy committee goes public, challenges House BOIE to do same
The Senate’s Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration Committee—the powerful governing body of the Senate—has decided to open up all its meeting to the public and is challenging the secretive Commons Board of Internal Economy (BOIE), which oversees all of House financial and administrative issues and meets only in-camera, to follow suit. The Senate’s Internal Economy […]
Conservatives left Libs with a balanced budget: Poilievre
Finance Canada has once again confirmed that the previous Conservative government left the Liberals with a balanced budget. The recently released Fiscal Monitor for February 2016 shows the government had a $7.5-billion surplus for the fiscal year 2015-2016. In their own budget, the Liberals claimed there would be a $5.4-billion deficit for the same fiscal […]
Budget, assisted-dying, RCMP labour bills to take precedence: LeBlanc
PARLIAMENT HILL—The House is back this week for three weeks, the longest consecutive sitting schedule so far this year, and Government House Leader Dominic LeBlanc says to expect some late-night sittingss while the government works to push through three bills before the House adjourns for the summer in June. The House will take a one-week break in May and […]
Liberals’ fiscal direction ‘sustainable’ debt could be gone, in 50 years: PBO
The Parliamentary Budget Office has judged the Liberal government’s fiscal direction as being sustainable with the prediction that it’s on track to wipe out the federal debt, within 50 years. The PBO issued a new economic and fiscal outlook last week. It included the projection that the fiscal structure set up in Prime Minister Justin […]
First Nations children left out to dry in Liberal government’s priorities
Not long ago, I stood just a few metres back from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the day the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report on the Canadian residential school legacy. The air in the room was heavy, sobering, and rich with sage. Many, if not all, of our eyes, were clouded by […]
Canada’s Big Challenges: Morneau’s got bold rhetoric on an innovation agenda, but can he deliver?
In his first budget speech, Finance Minister Bill Morneau promised that within the next year the government will deliver its innovation agenda—“a new vision for Canada’s economy as a centre of global innovation, renowned for its science, technology, resourceful citizens and globally competitive companies.” This, he said, will set out “our plans for real change.” […]
