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Hugh Mackenzie
The staying power of Ontario’s deficit games
[1]Hugh Mackenzie “Ontario’s Fiscal Reality – Cup half empty or half full”, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, March 19, 2012.
All in a Day’s Work?
CEO Pay in Canada Download 683.54 KB14 pages Five years after a global recession knocked the wind out of Canada’s labour market, throwing tens of…
Learning and Earning
The Impact of Taxation in the Higher Education Debates Download 523.91 KB26 pages This study finds public funding for postsecondary education is repaid many times…
Toronto’s $2.5 Billion Question
GTA and Hamilton Public Transit Expansion Revenue Options Download 575.68 KB38 pages This study lays out a compromise solution to political gridlock over how to…
Ontario Budget 2013: Four More Years of Austerity
By Hugh Mackenzie and Trish Hennessy All budgets are political in nature, but Ontario’s 2013 budget – tabled by a minority government with a new…
Canada’s Infrastructure Gap
Where It Came From and Why It Will Cost So Much To Fix It Download 442.3 KB 16 pages Underinvestment in infrastructure is not a…
Why the 99 per cent still matter in Canadian politics
A year after the Occupy movement focused public attention on the income, wealth and opportunity gap between the top 1 per cent and the 99…
Completing the job started by Mike Harris
The crowning irony of Premier Dalton McGuinty’s ninth budget is that it completes the job of cutting government down to size started by the Mike…
Ontario’s Fiscal Reality
Cup Half Empty or Half Full? Download 777.18 KB24 pages The McGuinty government has been using the report of the Commission on the Reform of…
Canada’s CEO Elite 100
The 0.01% Download 693.88 KB 21 pages The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual look at CEO compensation reveals that by 12:00 noon on January…
Political Paralysis and Disaster Budgeting: Lessons from Toronto
As Canadian governments at all jurisdictional levels engage in what can only be called Disaster Budgeting, it’s time to inject a voice of reason into…
Tim Hudak’s Got a $10 Billion Hole and Nothing to Say
In every leaders’ debate, everyone watching is looking for the zinger – the moment when an important question is asked and one of the participants…
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