An opportunity to fulfill a promise: the Canada Disability Benefit
The Canada Disability Benefit Act was passed unanimously in Parliament with all-party support. It is every party’s responsibility to fulfill its promise.
Canada has to focus on becoming a genuine innovation nation
If Canadians want a better-performing economy, then much more attention will have to be focused on innovation-driven productivity, skills training, and bringing more Canadians into the workforce and keeping them there for longer. But immigration will also matter.
Markets see ‘settling of nerves’ after dramatic drop, but recession talk is ‘brutally devastating’ for governments, say observers
If there is a recession, the Liberals’ fiscal plan would go ‘out the window,’ says former business journalist Theo Argitis. Carleton’s Ian Lee says that underlying economic hardship means a change in fiscal policy direction is inevitable.
Feds fail to justify spending billions of dollars on AI that mainly benefits industry insiders
The projected $2.4-billion of federal investment in artificial intelligence lacks justification and ill-serves the public interest. Canadians deserve better.
Canada can generate billions of dollars by tapping into inclusive business models
Inclusive Business Models that use anchor institutions as a strategy to encourage investment could be an excellent way to ramp up Canada’s productivity.
MP salary top-ups for committee, parlsec, and extra House duties
Just as party leaders, their top deputies, and cabinet ministers get extra pay for their added responsibilities, so, too, do the MPs taking on extra duties. That includes parliamentarians who hold leadership roles at committee, get tapped to work as parliamentary secretaries, are voted Speaker of the House, or sit on the top-secret National Security […]
The carbon tax is not created for all
Transportation, heating, and electricity expenses are already substantial; the added burden of carbon pricing pushes these costs to crisis levels.
We need to seize our potential now for young Canadians
There remain too many troubling signs that the concern is still not enough to redefine our priorities to ensure young Canadians have good cause to be optimistic about the future.
Canada downplays cost of meeting NATO spending mark as $60-billion projection will need to rise
In 2025, the figures NATO uses to calculate members’ GDP will no longer be based on the 2015 numbers it uses now, but would instead use 2020 as the base year, leaving Canada about $3.5-billion short of its 2032 target.
Interest rate cut offers relief for some borrowers, but no political reprieve for the PM: politicos
Pollster Nik Nanos says the cut offers some hope for the Liberals as it’s ‘a step in the right direction,’ while economist Trevor Tombe says conditions point to more cuts this year.
