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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Expanding the CPP—unnecessary and counterproductive

    Appeared in the Vancouver Province, November 10, 2016 In a recent op-ed in The Province, respected actuary Robert Brown responded to our criticism of the federal government’s case for expanding the Canada Pension Plan. While we’re pleased Mr. Brown has ...

  4. William Watson: Nudge, nudge, KABOOM! Behavioural economics comes to Canadian policy

    Just as I finished reading a new NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) working paper by Philip Oreopoulos and Robert French of the University of Toronto about how behavioural economics is starting to influence Canadian public ...

  5. Don't overlook how government policies hinder economic growth

    In a recent speech, Bank of Canada Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Wilkins outlined a number of reasons for why we’re experiencing slow economic growth including the effect of demographic changes on labour supply, stagnant productivity, ...

  6. Return on CPP contributions still meagre after expansion

    Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, July 22, 2016 The expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), announced in June by Canada’s federal and provincial finance ministers, has sparked important questions about what the changes will mean for ...

  7. CPP expansion will do little to boost rate of return, particularly for younger Canadians

    Last month Canada’s federal and provincial finance ministers announced an expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). Some have tried to justify expansion by claiming that the CPP provides a high rate of return for retired Canadians. ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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 in the future. As ...

  10. Clarifying assumptions in the debate about CPP expansion

    On July 13, the Financial Post published a column by noted pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer in which he offered up his latest response in our ongoing exchange about common myths regarding expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). One ...