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Assessing the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party’s Energy Policy Download 244.17 KB15 pages Part of the Ontario Conservative Party’s “one million jobs” promise is based on…
CETA and Canada’s Auto Industry
Making a bad situation worse Download 551.22 KB 40 pages Despite its challenges over the last decade the auto industry is still a crucial contributor…
How NOT to Create a Million Jobs
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Canada’s Auto Industry and the New Free Trade Agreements
Sorting Through the Impacts Download 498.81 KB 34 pages Despite its challenges over the last decade the auto industry is still a crucial contributor to…
Loonie’s Fall Not a Moment Too Soon
The long-overdue depreciation of Canada’s currency is gathering steam. The dollar lost 8 cents against its U.S. counterpart, in fits and starts, over 2013. It’s…
Will CETA Help Tories…Or Hurt Them?
With Prime Minister Harper making the diplomatic rounds in Europe, media interest has heightened this week regarding the potential free trade agreement which his government…
More Harm Than Good
Austerity’s Impact in Ontario Download 558.47 KB36 pages This report shows that Ontario hasn’t returned to pre-recession economic health. Austerity measures are compounding the problem,…
The Bitumen Cliff
Lessons and Challenges of Bitumen Mega-Developments for Canada’s Economy in an Age of Climate Change Download 2.51 MB102 pages The failure to carefully regulate the…
FTA’s Assumed Benefits Can’t Be Found
Last month’s over-the-top “celebrations” of the 25th anniversary of Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan’s signing of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement seemed strained, to my mind.…
Look at the other side of the petrodollar coin
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty recently spoke publicly about the problems Canada’s oil-powered currency was causing for his province’s manufacturing industry. But his words were drowned…
Employers Abuse Their Power Over Pensions
Pension pie shrinks while bosses, unions fight over it The grand debate between defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) models has dominated the pension…
A Cure for Dutch Disease
Active Sector Strategies for Canada’s Economy Download 424.48 KB11 pages This Technical Paper reports on the negative structural consequences of the mostly unregulated resource boom…
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