Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s new Minister of International Trade, plans to work with Parliament to ratify two important treaties that reduce existing barriers to free trade.
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November 27, 2015
8:30AM
Before making largely shambolic gestures using other people’s money, you should consider all the available alternatives.
November 20, 2015
3:00AM
A series of blog posts will highlight key policy areas where Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s think-tank experience can be especially useful. In this post, we examine the policy choices surrounding retirement savings.
November 19, 2015
3:00AM
The popular angst over the “strong Canadian dollar” of the 2000s is arguably misplaced.
November 12, 2015
9:58AM
A recent study found that 70 per cent of detached homes listed in Vancouver’s West Side went to Mainland Chinese buyers. But is this a problem?
November 10, 2015
9:15AM
Like most taxes, the land-transfer tax does more than transfer money from homebuyers to the government—it stifles economic activity and makes moving less attractive.
November 10, 2015
4:00AM
City council recently voted unanimously to support a 20-year plan aimed at reducing poverty in Toronto—a laudable initiative if council avoids enacting policies that may do more harm than good.
November 6, 2015
4:00AM
As one of his first policy proposals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to replace Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system with a system that “[better] reflects and represents” Canadians and makes “every vote count.”
November 4, 2015
11:48AM
In his book, the former Federal Reserve chairman confesses that the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department were powerless to prevent Lehman Brothers from failing.
November 3, 2015
4:00AM
Business investment is no longer the driving force of capital formation in Ontario. In its place, investment by the public sector has nearly doubled.
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