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Competition drives better pay; Wages get better when work gets smarter

Competition drives better pay; Wages get better when work gets smarter

12 juin 2012

Canadians can be justly proud of their country’s economic strength over the past 10 years. We led the G7 in gross domestic product and employment growth in the 2000s expansion, and had the shallowest downturn during the severe global...

Talk is Cheap

Talk is Cheap

30 mai 2012

In the second half of 2011, the Afghan government and its international allies were busy with talks at the Bonn 2 Conference (the 11th international conference in 10 years) and the OECD’s High Level Forum in Busan, South Korea,...

A mild case of ‘Dutch disease’; Canada’s waning competitiveness – not the high dollar – is the main cause of our manufacturing woes

A mild case of ‘Dutch disease’; Canada’s waning competitiveness – not the high dollar – is the main cause of our manufacturing woes

Mohammad Shakeri, Richard S. Gray and Jeremy Leonard | 23 mai 2012

As the war of words over the regional economic effects of Alberta’s oilsands that has pit West against East, a careful look at the evidence shows that the impact of the energy sector and the strong dollar on manufacturing...

Filling the PRPP holes

Filling the PRPP holes

22 mai 2012

The pooled registered pension plan (PRPP) announced by the federal government last year is the first step in the reforms needed to extend pension coverage to the more than 60% of the Canadian workforce not currently enrolled in a...

Diagnosing Canada’s manufacturing woes

Diagnosing Canada’s manufacturing woes

17 mai 2012

The continuing global energy boom that began in the early 2000s has brought significant economic benefits to Canada in the form of strong growth in national income, relatively low unemployment and (until the recession) healthy public finances. These benefits...

Pair auto subsidies, pay cuts

Pair auto subsidies, pay cuts

Leslie Shiell and Robin Somerville, with commentary by Jim Stanford | 20 avril 2012

As the Canadian Auto Workers union launches a new campaign for a « National Auto Policy » ahead of negotiations with the Big Three automakers, the time has come to reconsider the ongoing subsidization of the automotive sector. Most Canadians remember...

Immediate labour-force needs are just part of the immigration equation

Immediate labour-force needs are just part of the immigration equation

19 avril 2012

In the wake of the federal budget and as Immigration Minister Jason Kenney prepares to make sweeping changes, the government should take a balanced approach to reforming the economic-class immigration stream. Addressing both short- and long-term labour-market goals and...

The Charter at 30: The unfinished business of constitutional reform

The Charter at 30: The unfinished business of constitutional reform

17 avril 2012

Something funny happened this week on the way to marking the 30th anniversary of the repatriation of the Constitution and the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. While the assessment of English-speaking analysts of the impact...

Crumbling infrastructure should be a lesson for all of us

Crumbling infrastructure should be a lesson for all of us

James A. Brox | 10 avril 2012

Canada is built on infrastructure, in more ways than one. The Canadian Pacific Railway, the Trans-Canada Pipeline, the Trans-Canada Highway, the St. Lawrence Seaway, Expo 67, the Montreal and Calgary Olympic facilities, and more recently the Confederation Bridge linking...

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