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Canada’s EI regional lottery
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
Apr 19 2011
Canada’s employment insurance program is a postal code lottery — your winnings (if any) largely depend on your address. In this respect, the program is unique internationally. A recent study done for the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force compares Canada with 17 OECD countries. It is only in Canada that your region plays an integral part of the EI regime. Simply put, where one lives has a direct and profound effect on the three most important questions a recently unemployed person may ask.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living, tax
Posted in Equality Delivery System | No Comments »
We need a Grand Bargain to save our public services
Monday, August 9th, 2010
August 9, 2010
Ottawa is again posting large deficits, federal transfers expire in 2014, and provinces could fall victim to unilateral cuts to transfers as they did in the 1990s, when the federal government balanced its books by drastically reducing transfers at no apparent political cost to itself… But Canada doesn’t simply need “protection” of current transfers. It needs a Grand Bargain, where greater, more transparent and more reliable federal funding is combined with a realignment of the way the provinces deliver those services, and of the whole fiscal relationship between the provinces and the federal government.
Tags: budget, ideology, standard of living
Posted in Governance Debates | No Comments »
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