Looking beyond productivity stats will improve outcomes for Canadians
Having a bad short-term productivity performance since 2020 is a problem. Avoiding it at the cost of a continuing decline in the employment rate and increased inequality in the distribution of labour income would have been far worse.
Let’s use technology and lessons from the online gaming sector to tackle money laundering
Using technology to get better-quality data from all industries will help us to identify bad actors, block suspicious activity, and lay charges more efficiently.
Feds must take action in 2024 budget to help Canadian music creators now
Copyright Act updates will create a more equitable and fair copyright regime in Canada.
It’s all about productivity
To put the country on track, we need some kind of independent institution to provide analysis and policy ideas on long-term growth and productivity. Our politicians, public policymakers, most corporate leaders and our universities all seem bereft of ideas.
To address the affordability crisis, Parliamentarians should support Bill C-56 and back unions to counterbalance corporate power
Our recent lingering bout of high inflation is the most visible consequence of corporate power.
Missing the point of Freeland’s what-have-we-got-to-lose mini-budget
The Nov. 21 economic statement was the implicit recognition of the political reality facing the Liberals in the aftermath of eight years of all-in investment policy.
Trudeau government keeps violating self-imposed fiscal rules
There are few signs the Liberals will transform into responsible stewards of public finances and take meaningful steps to control debt and debt interest costs.
It’s always the economy, and we’re not stupid
While politicians hurl accusations and recycle old ideological claims, their lives are mostly untouched by current financial pressures; they, along with grocery store executives, well-cushioned pensioners and parents who can somehow still afford Taylor Swift tickets.
Freeland fails to address future of Canadian economy in forthright terms
Now more than ever, Canadians need substance and forthright leadership on how we climb out of the current morass for a better future.
Fall economic statement falls short
Fighting for the climate and affordability are not competing goals. The Liberals must not allow Conservative sloganeering to drive their policies.
