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Multiple trade negotiations offer tantalizing possibilities

Multiple trade negotiations offer tantalizing possibilities

December 27, 2013

Canadian trade negotiators have a busy year ahead, and not just because new trade agreements were among the key priorities in the Harper government’s trade strategy announced last month. The government’s focus will be on finishing the text of...

WTO’s Bali ministerial meeting holds fate of Doha Round in its hands

WTO’s Bali ministerial meeting holds fate of Doha Round in its hands

November 27, 2013

When trade ministers meet in Bali, Indonesia, next week, the elephant in the room will be whether the World Trade Organization (WTO) can function as a negotiating forum. The agenda includes only a small set of issues to be...

The Tory Jobs Program Isn’t Enough

The Tory Jobs Program Isn’t Enough

Cliff Halliwell | November 8, 2013

Earlier this month, Canada’s provincial and federal ministers responsible for labour market policy met for the first time in several years. That it has been this long is symptomatic of the many challenges facing labour market policy in Canada....

The Canada-EU trade deal: A job creator – and a job killer

The Canada-EU trade deal: A job creator – and a job killer

October 30, 2013

Yesterday the Harper government presented additional details in Parliament on the long-awaited trade deal between Canada and the European Union. Not surprisingly, there’s been debate about the likely economic impacts of the deal. Proponents cite a government study that...

CPP needs more than a “modest” fix to help middle-income retirees

CPP needs more than a “modest” fix to help middle-income retirees

Michael Wolfson | July 15, 2013

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his provincial counterparts, last December, agreed to consider options for a “modest” expansion of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in June, 2013. June has come and gone without this meeting. If and...

The inconvenient truth about industrial policy

The inconvenient truth about industrial policy

Dan Ciuriak and John M. Curtis | June 18, 2013

For the past few decades, governments in advanced economies have been discouraged from using “industrial policy” – that is, targeted interventions in particular sectors that are by definition not neutral in their impact across the economy. The long-standing conviction is that...

Steven Lewis and Terrence Sullivan: How doctors are bankrupting health care

Steven Lewis and Terrence Sullivan: How doctors are bankrupting health care

Steven Lewis and Terrence Sullivan | May 31, 2013

The Canada Health Act specifies that physicians are entitled to “reasonable compensation,” and the current agreements are the accumulation of four decades of incremental negotiations, compromises and accommodations. All are based on the assumption that a doctor’s “activity” and...

Foreign investment rules: Still lost in the fog?

Foreign investment rules: Still lost in the fog?

Dany H. Assaf and Rory A. McGillis | May 9, 2013

The issue of foreign investment has long been a sensitive topic in Canada. For years, we have debated concerns about the “hollowing out” of Canada and, more recently, the investments from state-owned enterprises in the oil patch from less familiar...

If foreign investors follow the rules, doors should open

If foreign investors follow the rules, doors should open

April 19, 2013

The issue of foreign investment has long been a sensitive topic in Canada. For years, we have debated concerns about the “hollowing out” of Canada and, more recently, the investments from state-owned enterprises in the oil patch from less...

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