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BUSINESS INVESTMENT – WE’VE RAISED OUR GAME

Monday, October 8th, 2012

September 4, 2012
Historically, Canadian businesses tended to borrow funds to cover capital investments they couldn’t finance internally. Lately, however, businesses are emitting funds. Statistics Canada’s latest figures also show that over the year to mid-2012, they not only added about $12,000 of new capital per worker, they also released about $3,500 per worker in saving… Our workers are now getting more new plant and equipment than their counterparts abroad.

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Fix pensions with screw-drivers, not sledgehammers

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Dec. 17, 2010
… some Canadians who are doing well while working may need to save more than their predecessors, and may need readier access to cost-effective, well-managed saving and retirement arrangements. Granted, post-retirement consumption for middle-class employees in small organizations and the self-employed is not the sexiest subject for a post-meeting communiqué. But that’s what the finance ministers should discuss. Those people need better private pensions and RRSPs, not “one size fits all” solutions – screwdrivers from the ministers, not sledgehammers.

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Ottawa should just show spending restraint

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Feb. 19, 2010.

Ottawa’s fiscal situation has deteriorated so sharply partly because both the previous Liberal and the current Conservative governments committed to increase transfers to the provinces faster than the economy and the federal tax base can grow. This situation is not just fiscally unsustainable, it also undermines accountability: Governments serve citizens better when the legislature that provides the programs levies the taxes.

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