Here’s how the feds can reduce taxes and balance the budget in two years
By lowering tax rates for many Canadians, the government would improve our tax competitiveness, and better incentivize entrepreneurship, investment, and other activities that promote economic growth and generate tax revenue.
Macklem addresses Bank of Canada key interest rate cut
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem announced his second consecutive cut to the central bank’s key overnight lending rate on July 24. With this announcement the rate drops by 25 basis points from 4.75 per cent down to 4.5 per cent. The decision comes in the wake of the central bank’s milestone June 5 decision […]
Is Canada broken? The IMF says no, but we do need to boost our productivity
A new IMF report provides a balanced view of where Canada is at than the mangled exchanges and accusations between our supposedly adult parliamentarians.
Is the girl-boss era coming to an ignoble end?
The Liberals are never held accountable for the female sacrificial lambs they send out for slaughter to save the position of a mediocre man.
How much do party leaders and their top deputies make?
MPs’ salaries got a boost earlier this year—now at $203,100 annually—as did the top-ups that certain leadership roles receive. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers, including Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, get extra cash for taking on added responsibilities, with their respective pay increasing by $17,000 and $12,500. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre also […]
Senate Oversight Committee recommends budget boost, hiring two auditors
Senate Audit and Oversight Committee chair Sen. Marty Klyne says his team will ‘build a launchpad’ over the summer for their request for a $347,500 increase to this year’s budget, and two new internal auditor hires.
Canada needs a fresh approach on innovation
Innovation is about bringing new ideas to market. This, built on technological progress and investment in intangibles, is the key source of productivity-boosting economic growth.
It’s worth two per cent: NATO is Canada’s grand strategy
Instead of a plan that binds itself to specific population goals or political parties, NATO binds us to the collaborative consensus-building and problem-solving of the alliance.
Shrink government revenues? Grow TFSA room? Economists weigh in on what a Poilievre tax-reform panel could—or should—consider
Pierre Poilievre is likely to appoint a panel of ‘practical people,’ and avoid policies that don’t work in the real world, unlike the way ‘losing governments’ have approached tax reforms in the past, said the Fraser Institute’s Philip Cross.
Immigrants back regularization for undocumented people
Regularization is not about rewarding lawbreakers; it’s about rectifying systemic failings that leave many people vulnerable and uncertain.
