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  1. Federal government’s spending rationale based on misleading debt picture

    Canada has the fifth-highest level of total indebtedness (relative to the size of our economy) among 29 industrialized countries. ...

  2. Caution Required When Comparing Canada’s Debt to that of Other Countries

    The federal government continues to rationalize its debt-financed spending based on international comparisons showing Canada with the lowest level of debt in the G7. Of the two broad measures of debt, gross debt includes most forms of debt while ...

  3. Contributions to the CPP—comparing provinces

    Alberta’s $27.9 billion net contribution over this period is almost four times greater than Ontario’s. ...

  4. Albertans Make Disproportionate Contributions to National Programs: The Canada Pension Plan as a Case Study

    Alberta disproportionately contributes to a host of national and federal programs. This bulletin examines the province’s contributions to the Canada Pension Plan. In 2017, Alberta workers represented 16.5 percent of the total contributions to the ...

  5. Advertisements mislead Canadians about the CPP investment board

    Canadians watching NFL wild-card playoff games this past weekend likely saw the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPPIB) new advertisement at least once. (My informal count was eight times over four games.) The timing of the new ...

  6. Recent column about expanded CPP ignores costs to Canadian workers

    The expanded CPP’s overall rate of return for workers is a meagre 2.5 per cent. ...

  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. The Age of Eligibility for Public Retirement Programs in the OECD

    All industrialized countries, particularly those in the OECD and including Canada, are experiencing an aging of their populations. Of the 22 high-income OECD countries apart from Canada, 18 of them (over 80 percent) (Australia, Austria, Belgium, ...

  9. 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 ...

  10. Rates of return for expanded CPP remain meagre

    Last month, Canada’s finance ministers announced an “agreement in principle” to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), which will require workers to pay more into the program starting in 2019 in exchange for higher CPP retirement benefits ...