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Child care for all of us
Universal child care for Canadians by 2020 Download 177.86 KB21 pages It is disturbing but not surprising that, despite some initiatives in a number of…
Des services de garde pour nous tous et toutes
Des services de garde universels pour l’ensemble des Canadiens en 2020 Download 318.54 KB26 pages Il est inquiétant, quoique pas étonnant, de constater que malgré…
SaskNotes: The Futility of Austerity
Lessons for Saskatchewan Download 369.17 KB7 pages The instinct of governments across the political spectrum when faced with economic contraction has been to cut public…
Fast Facts: Manitoba’s 2016 Speech from the Throne
Austerity Darkens Manitoba’s Door A version of this was first published in the Winnipeg Free Press Friday November 25, 2016 If the new provincial…
The Walking Deficit: What lurks beneath tomorrow’s Fall Economic Statement
Deficits in past year Total debt GDP contribution in past year Households -$73.0 $ 1,989 $33.1 Corporate (non-banks) -$63.8 $ 2,300 -$12.1 Federal Gov…
CCPA Submission to BC Budget Consultations 2017
Submission to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services of the Legislative Assembly of BC Download
Austerity not the solution to Nova Scotia’s economic challenges: study
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. HALIFAX – The provincial government’s austerity program is misguided and is making the real challenges facing Nova Scotia worse, says…
Growth, Austerity and the Future of Nova Scotian Prosperity
Download 988.66 KB46 pages This study evaluates Nova Scotia’s fiscal situation and finds the government has misidentified the economic challenges facing the province. Instead of…
BC Commentary: A review of provincial social, economic and environmental trends
Fall 2016, Volume 19, Number 3 Download 1.45 MB8 pages Inside this issue: We can fix Vancouver’s broken housing market, by Marc Lee Working for…
Eliminating unfair MSP premiums doesn’t have to be complicated
In an interview with Vaughn Palmer earlier this summer, the Premier confirmed her government has changed its tune on the Medical Services Plan (MSP) tax,…
BC should eliminate the MSP. Here are two better options.
Download 1.07 MB12 pages This short paper offers two options for replacing the MSP in BC with a fairer system. It originally appeared as a post…
Why Canada’s long-term fiscal prospects are not a hot mess
There’s been so much bad economic news in the past few days, it kind of feels normal to hear more of it. And pointless. It…
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