Guaranteed income is a bad idea. Introducing it during a crisis would be even worse: Philip Cross in The Financial Post
Canadians’ vulnerability in the pandemic is being used a trojan horse to try to smuggle in a minimum income for ...
Tag: basic income
A guaranteed basic income will be too expensive and bad for economic recovery: Jack Mintz for Inside Policy
As we begin to recover from this pandemic, the last form of intervention we need is to discourage people from ...
Why Ontario was right to cancel the basic income project: Crowley and Speer in Sun papers
The basic income model undervalues the broad-based benefits of paid work, write Brian Lee Crowley and Sean Speer. By Brian ...
A work and opportunity agenda for Canada: MLI study by Brian Lee Crowley and Sean Speer
OTTAWA, ON (September 27, 2018): Fears surrounding economic, social, and political disruption loom large in the minds of policy-makers throughout ...
Paying able-bodied people not to work isn’t an act of compassion — it’s an act of surrender: Crowley and Speer in the Financial Post
Getting real people into real jobs is the measure on which the Ford government should be judged, write Brian Lee ...
We need to enable conditions for paid work, Speer tells CBC News
Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer talks to CBC News on BC's plan to study Ontario's basic income pilot project. "At ...
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Unfortunately for Canadian consumers and creators, the Online Streaming Act is performing exactly as predicted: Peter Menzies in the Hub
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Mexican cartels are a direct threat to Canada’s public safety, and the future of North American trade: Gary J. Hale for Inside Policy
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Canadians are very unhappy with the federal public service—and for good reason: Tim Sargent in The Hub
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Will Justin Trudeau prorogue Parliament in the new year? History shows there’s little political cost to the practice: Dave Snow in The Hub
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Canada is an energy superpower. It’s time to remind America and act like it: Heather Exner-Pirot in The Hub
