Impact of COVID-19 Policies on Jobs More Terrible than Forecast, Bound to Get Worse: MLI Labour Market Report
OTTAWA, ON (April 17, 2020): In March, Canada’s labour market suffered its most significant setback in history. The economic impacts ...
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Economy, meet cliff: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
Canada’s productive capacity of capital and labour will be curtailed for years, as business investment slumps and immigration slows, writes ...
Grow to get over our new debt mountain: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
The focus should be on education, growth-enhancing public infrastructure, moving to balanced budgets, tax and regulatory reform, and better and ...
How Equalization Failed Alberta in its Time of Need and How to Fix It: New Joint MLI-IIGR report by Thomas and Teresa Courchene
OTTAWA, ON (April 16, 2020): The COVID-19 pandemic will have a severe economic impact on Canada. However, given the current ...
Don’t strangle trade: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
Better for Canada to agree with key allies to share resources during emergencies rather than create an ever-lengthening list of ...
A modest proposal on public service pay to help tackle the ballooning deficit: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
A permanent 20% reduction of public service pay seems warranted. Either that or the doubling of pension plan contributions, writes ...
COVID-19: What Canada should *NOT* do to combat the coronavirus: Balkan Devlen in the National Post
When dealing with deep uncertainty and the COVID-19 pandemic, it is easier, and perhaps more important, to know what not ...
Video: How we got in a COVID-19 Fix and how to start to get out
Canada's initial slow approach to the COVID-19 crisis has created an entirely new set of problems and consequences. But what ...
We need to be thinking about the long-term economic recovery now: Philip Cross’s Testimony to the Federal Finance Committee
The imperatives of dealing with the current COVID-19 crisis cannot totally blind us to their long-term effects. It is not ...
It’s time to talk about a COVID-19 exit strategy: Rob Wildeboer and Ray Pennings in The Hill Times
We’ll need to count the lives lost in the short term directly related to the pandemic, of course. But we’ll ...
Canada’s economy is staring down its greatest challenge yet: MLI’s Leading Economic Indicator
OTTAWA, ON (April 3, 2020): Canada’s economic trendline has continued its deceleration according to the latest update of the Macdonald-Laurier ...
Facing the Human and Economic Costs of Fighting COVID-19: New MLI Commentary
OTTAWA, ON (April 1, 2020): Canada has entered into uncharted territory as we fight to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and ...
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