The Pandemic: High-water Mark for Government Intervention?: Philip Cross for Inside Policy
The response of governments was heavy-handed, lead-footed, and wrong-headed, writes Philip Cross. By Philip Cross, December 8, 2020 2020 forever ...
Tag: economic policy
Got CEWS, Paid Dividend: No Problem: William Watson in the Financial Post
If business people pay dividends in the middle of a pandemic, it’s probably because they think it’s important for the ...
Canada’s economic growth continues despite slowdown: MLI’s Leading Economic Indicator
OTTAWA, ON (December 8, 2020): The Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Leading Economic Indicator posted slowing growth in October. While Canada’s economy is ...
Chrystia Freeland’s doublethink: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
The unrelenting decades-long focus on short-term stimulus for the economy has been at the expense of ignoring the long-term damage ...
We’ll pay for all these down payments: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
Office of the Prime Minister of Canada / Flickr Canadians won't like what comes next — the higher taxes that ...
Finding a Path Forward for the Energy Sector: Ken Coates for Inside Policy
Canada’s oil and gas industry had been put on a different course through Indigenous engagement, writes Ken Coates. By Ken ...
High savings show government pandemic income support badly missed the mark: MLI labour market report
OTTAWA, ON (December 2, 2020): In a new study for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross finds that ...
All the green subways in the world won’t get pilots flying again: William Watson in the Financial Post
Once we have immunity to the virus, there is going to be so much pent-up demand for these currently devastated ...
Keep social policy out of credit markets: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
Social and economic policy interventions best left to fiscal and regulatory policies, most of which come under parliamentary scrutiny, writes ...
The great labour glut is ending: William Watson in the Financial Post
China’s population is aging. The constant flow of new workers from the farms is drying up and wages are rising, ...
Health care had a better pandemic than economics: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
Economics simply trotted out the same easy-money and deficit-financed policies it has relentlessly pursued since the financial crisis, writes Philip ...
A tax on remote workers would do more harm than good: Linda Nazareth in the Globe and Mail
Putting a tax on workers outside of the office will inevitably mean fewer will be able to do so, at ...
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Time for an intervention – an urgent call to end “gender-affirming” treatments for children: J. Edward Les for Inside Policy
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Canadian Competitiveness in Resource Development – A Post-Mortem: Heather Exner-Pirot
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The Governor General deserves better, but we deserve impartiality: Philippe Lagassé for Inside Policy
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Widespread shortages, skyrocketing costs: the growing calamity that is government-controlled child care
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Canada’s resource sector: protecting the Golden Goose
