Canada should forget about Keystone XL and look beyond the U.S.: Jeff Kucharski in the Globe and Mail
With Keystone looking less and less viable, it is time to seriously look at alternatives that will allow us to ...
Tag: economy
How the trend to remote work may help growth outside major centres: Linda Nazareth in The Globe and Mail
With the pandemic, a large chunk of the work force is now doing remote work, and apparently it is turning ...
Ottawa is in a ‘vicious circle’ of spending due to the pandemic: Philip Cross on BNN Bloomberg
MLI senior fellow Philip Cross appeared on BNN Bloomberg to discuss the testimony of Evan Siddall, the president and CEO ...
Canada needs to remember rural communities as thoughts turn to pandemic recovery: Ken Coates in Black Press Media
Quite frankly, the country needs to think seriously about its commitment to the revival and revitalization of rural and small-town ...
Canada’s debt load is even worse than you think: Jack Mintz in The Financial Post
Add it all up and Canada’s debt burden is $3.2 trillion. That’s 166 per cent of GDP — fully four ...
Climate change priorities need to be adjusted: Ken Coates for Inside Policy
The next few months matter greatly. The immediate challenges are monumental. But how governments invest their stimulus spending, regulate the ...
Stop the economic self-harm and revive the Canadian energy sector: Ken Coates for Inside Policy
In the short-term, Canadians have a simple decision: support the energy sector or shut it down. Half measures are unlikely ...
Principles for getting Canada back to work and prosperity: New MLI paper by Mintz, Coates, Cross and Savoie
OTTAWA, ON (May 22, 2020): The COVID-19 crisis and subsequent lockdown have left Canadians facing a dark and uncertain economic ...
If Canada is sending China the bill for COVID-19, it could be $2.4-trillion: Philip Cross for Inside Policy
There is a good deal of evidence that China’s misinformation and mishandling of the initial outbreak in Wuhan contributed to ...
For older workers, the pandemic employment plunge may be tougher to pull out of: Linda Nazareth in the Globe and Mail
We are only at the beginning of the economic adjustment, and it would be naive to think that older workers ...
How about some public sector sacrifice, too?: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
Issues about fairness in public sector and private-sector compensation will become more contentious as the economy recovers, writes Jack Mintz ...
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 ...
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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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The Governor General deserves better, but we deserve impartiality: Philippe Lagassé for Inside Policy
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Canadian Competitiveness in Resource Development – A Post-Mortem: Heather Exner-Pirot
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Widespread shortages, skyrocketing costs: the growing calamity that is government-controlled child care
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Success assured? Appraising the Canadian-led Enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup in Latvia
