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No More Tough-on-Crime
About 40% of the Harper government’s recent legislative agenda was devoted to crime laws. Most of these would have created new offences and mandated longer…
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A Challenge to Canada’s Wealthiest 0.1%
This election presents an opportunity for you wealthy Canadians, especially the very richest 0.1% among you—the 25,000 Canadians with an average annual income of $1.5 million—to…
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Shock and Awful – The Truth Behind the CIT cuts
Cutting corporate income taxes doesn’t create jobs. They may raise wages, but probably not for you and me. And they mean Canadian taxpayers are paying…
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The Treasury Transfer Effect – You Read It Here First
Munir Sheikh, former head of Statistics Canada and of tax policy at Finance Canada, has an op-ed in today’s Globe and Mail: “A Canada-U.S. tax gap…
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Harper’s Record on Immigration – Lawyers Weigh In
The following is cut and pasted from an email that is in circulation to lawyers, practitioners and academics regarding the Harper record on immigration. It…
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Fast Facts: Electing to house Canadians – or not?
Little has been said by the political parties about housing in the lead-up to the federal election on May 2. This is surprising, considering that…
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A billion dollars of bogus carbon credits
A story in today’s Vancouver Sun is disturbing, arguing that BC could make $1 billion from selling carbon offsets once the Western Climate Initiative gets…
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Cynical Fears of a ‘Hidden Agenda’ Have Replaced Facts in Our Politics
On the face of it, this election campaign has thus far largely been free of what one might call the language of a culture war.…
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Why Canada’s System For Buying Prescriptions Drugs Is Broken
The current system for buying prescription drugs in Canada – a hybrid system of multiple public and private drug plans – is totally dysfunctional. First,…
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