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Filling the PRPP holes

Filling the PRPP holes

May 22, 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

May 17, 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 | April 20, 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

Garnett Picot and Arthur Sweetman | April 19, 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

April 17, 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 | April 10, 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...

Resisting U.S. transportation protectionism

Resisting U.S. transportation protectionism

April 10, 2012

The success of Canada’s Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative (APGCI) and other gateway strategies have provoked emulation and envy south of the border, as they bring significant rewards in trade, especially with Asia, to both countries. The APGCI...

Improve integration of migrant farm workers

Improve integration of migrant farm workers

Jenna Hennebry | April 9, 2012

The second fatal car accident involving temporary foreign workers in recent weeks, just shortly after the horrific car crash near Hampstead, Ont., in February that killed nine migrant farm workers, has left communities across the country in mourning. It...

Quebec approach to pension reform is the one to follow

Quebec approach to pension reform is the one to follow

March 28, 2012

With a population that is both older and retires younger than the rest of Canada, Quebec has had to move faster than other provinces to prepare for populating aging. Despite these unique challenges, this week’s provincial budget laid out...

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