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Platform Crunch: What spending cuts could mean in terms of job losses
by David Macdonald on October 18, 2019 I’ve speculated in earlier posts that many of the promises made by parties during the federal election campaign were expensive, and I was curious about how they’d pay for them. Of...What a vote for health could mean for Canada: A health care provider’s platform analysis
by Jonathon Herriot on October 18, 2019 A patient enters my office in a bout of depression and in need of counselling—if only comprehensive mental health care were included in Canadian medicare. The next patient, a...Platform Crunch: Eradicating Poverty
by Katherine Scott on October 17, 2019 What a difference a few years make. Tackling poverty and inequality were key themes in the 2015 election. This year, they have been muscled out by talk of affordability and tax...Platform crunch: Taxing the digital giants
by Toby Sanger on October 17, 2019 It has taken a while, but almost all the major political parties now seem to finally agree that it’s time to tax the digital e-commerce giants: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix...Platform Crunch: Liberal and Conservative broad tax cuts
by David Macdonald on October 11, 2019 This is an update to an earlier post that examined only the Conservative “universal tax cut. I now have had a bit more time to model the Liberal version and compare the two head...
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