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Hugh Mackenzie was the speaker at a recent CCPA-Rideau Institute event that asked the question, 'can we have an adult conversation about taxes?' This is the transcript of his speech in which he makes the case for rebuilding our government’s ability to make public investments and meet the nation’s challenges.

Canadian Military Spending 2009

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The Case for Economic Planning

Companies plan for the future. Why shouldn’t governments?

Borrowing Trouble

Why not use the Bank of Canada to carry government debt?

The Monitor

Perpetuating the Big Business Lie

Right-wingers revile “big” government as “creeping socialism”

BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends

Fall 2009, Volume 12, Number 3

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