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The upside of downloading
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Dec. 3, 2011
given the altered incentives created by Paul Martin’s restructuring of transfers, many provinces also reformed their welfare systems to focus on better results and controlling costs. But different provinces focused their attention on different things, tailoring reform to their local circumstances. B.C. focused on time limits on entitlements, Alberta on getting employable young people into work, and Ontario on workfare. This is downloading at work. It was directly responsible for a wave of innovative experimentation by the provinces, freed from Ottawa’s poorly thought-out policy ambitions.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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We don’t really know (private vs public pensions)
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Dec. 21, 2010
Only two major OECD countries, France and Germany, have pension systems that give their average retiree a higher percentage of average pre-retirement disposable income… Moreover, it is by no means clear that Canadians will now lack sufficient retirement income to live independently and with dignity. Poverty among Canadian seniors is among the lowest in the OECD, so our retirement system is not failing the least well off. And the wealthy are generally retiring comfortably. So if there’s a problem, it lies in the middle.
Tags: pensions, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Tear down the economic barriers
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Jun. 29, 2010
What this country needs is a legislated Economic Charter of Rights for Canadians laying out our right to be welcome economically throughout our national home while respecting our constitutional division of powers, backed by an Economic Freedom Commission able to investigate breaches of the charter and litigate over them on behalf of small businesses and individuals who can’t afford to sue provincial authorities with bottomless pockets… The horde of petty restrictions on our right to buy, sell and work freely throughout Canada is pointlessly harmful to prosperity.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living
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