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1. Interest Rates and Mortgage Borrowing Power in Canada

   One often-overlooked contributing factor to rising home prices in Canada is mortgage interest rates. Between 2000 and 2016, the prevailing mortgage interest rate declined from 7.0 percent o 2.7 percent. This decline resulted in a 52.9 percent ...

2. End of the Chrétien Consensus?

     The Chrétien Consensus was an implicit agreement that transcended political party and geography regarding the soundness of balanced budgets, declining government debt, smaller and smarter government spending, and competitive taxes that emerged in the ...