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  1. Doug Ford’s next big federal tax challenge—opt out of CPP expansion

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, August 15, 2018 In one of his first orders of business after becoming premier of Ontario, Doug Ford quickly moved to scrap the previous government’s cap-and-trade program. While it’s not yet clear what (if anything) will ...

  2. Expansion of the Canada Pension Plan and the Unintended Effect on Domestic Investment

    Beginning in 2019, mandatory contributions by Canadian workers to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) will increase, step by step, over seven years. While the expansion of the CPP may be well intentioned, it will result in several unintended consequences. One ...

  3. Canadians will receive meagre rate of return on CPP contributions

    Appeared in the Financial Post, April 4, 2018 Misperceptions plague the public’s view of the Canada Pension Plan (or CPP). Mark Machin, CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB)—the organization tasked with investing CPP contributions ...

  4. Call a spade a spade—CPP payroll tax is a tax

    Our recent study found that virtually all Canadian families with children will soon pay higher taxes due to federal income tax changes already in place and forthcoming increases to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) payroll tax. If the ...

  5. Reality undercuts Trudeau government’s tax-cutting claim

    There’s no doubt that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is being asked some tough questions on his current cross-country town hall tour. But a recent study on taxation raises yet another critical question for the prime minister. For a ...

  6. The Effect on Canadian Families of Changes to Federal Income Tax and CPP Payroll Tax

    Since coming into office, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has repeatedly claimed to have reduced taxes for middle class Canadian families—a claim based solely on the federal government’s reduction to the second lowest personal income ...

  7. CPP reforms need a complete rethink

    For retirees born after 1993, the CPP rate of return will be a meagre 2.5 per cent. ...

  8. Business investment down, taxes up—bad news for Canadians

    With less than three months left in 2017, despite recent headlines espousing positive economic news, Canada’s economy faces many near and long-term challenges that the Trudeau government must consider as it crafts its fiscal update (due ...

  9. Higher taxes on the middle class—another broken election promise from the Trudeau Liberals

    Appeared in the Globe and Mail, February 13, 2017 When a government breaks an election promise it usually attracts a fair bit of controversy. Witness the hubbub in the aftermath of the Trudeau Liberals abandoning electoral reform. With the federal budget ...

  10. Calls for More Policy Reversals

    Appeared in the Globe and Mail, February 7, 2017 The federal government’s economic advisory council led by the managing director of global consulting giant McKinsey and Company has called on the federal government to reverse several of its most high ...