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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. Private pensions face regulatory burden the Canada Pension Plan does not

    Appeared in the Financial Post, June 6, 2018 In 2016, in fulfillment of a campaign promise, the Trudeau government reached an agreement with the provinces to expand the Canada Pension Plan. Consequently, mandatory CPP contributions from working Canadians ...

  3. Understanding the Regulatory Framework Governing Private and Public Pensions

    A common argument made to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) is that it is cheap to administer. While many studies have cast doubt on this claim, why would a public pension plan be cheaper to administer than a private one? Many factors affect the cost ...

  4. CPP expansion will shrink available pool of investment capital in Canada

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, May 7, 2018 Canada has a growing investment problem. Business investment (excluding residential structures—houses, condos, etc.) has dropped nearly 20 per cent since 2014, and the level of business investment (as a ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. CPP reforms need a complete rethink

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

  10. 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, ...