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How — and why — we’re modernizing Canada’s public service
Paying employees a voluntary severance – in addition to a healthy pension – when they quit or retire, is not sustainable or frankly, fair. That is why Stephen Harper’s government eliminated this perk last year. We introduced 50-50 cost-sharing for public sector pensions for the same reasons. Savings to taxpayers? More than $5-billion by 2017. And there is much more to do… our government is introducing a mandatory tracking system for employee performance.
Tags: budget, ideology, jurisdiction
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Equalization payments stunting Quebec’s growth
… Quebec’s dependence on equalization payments from the federal government is hurting the development of its economy… the goal of equalization remains laudable… to allow provinces to offer a comparable level of public services across the country… What a government receives in forest royalties, mining royalties or profits earned from a public electric utility like Hydro-Québec count directly against the transfers received. It’s a double-edged sword… rates that reflect the true cost of production… would reduce equalization.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living
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Ontario shortchanged by equalization payment rules
Apr 06 2013
If we didn’t send so much money to other provinces, we wouldn’t be so deeply in debt. Meanwhile, other provinces are balancing their books on our backs, or use our funds to provide services at a higher level than we can afford to offer here — from low-fee child care to high-end health care… The architecture of fiscal federalism is too opaque and abstract for the average Ontarian to comprehend, or suddenly care about after decades of indifference.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax
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Money still flows out of ‘have-not’ Ontario
Mar 30 2013
This gap is not primarily due to unfair taxation practice… Simply put, many federal programs operate according to conditions that redirect funds to provinces other than Ontario… In just one program… [ EI ] Ontarians saw a $20-billion redistribution away from the province in the period between 2000-2010. And it hasn’t stopped yet.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Public-private partnerships: good business but bad governance
Dec. 18, 2012
I can’t blame the private companies for making a buck and avoiding risk. If I was a shareholder, I would expect nothing less. The private sector has much to offer the government, and some things are best left to private companies. But our government needs to realize that the private sector exists to serve private interests. It will never place the public interest first, as a government must do.
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page questions need for deep cuts
Dec. 02, 2012
Some $5.2 billion in departmental spending cuts, 19,000 public service jobs slashed, a major diminution in environmental protections, the whittling away of our public broadcaster, government pensions and social services — these were just some of the measures contained in the nearly 500-page 2012 federal budget, the most austere since the mid-1990s… But… Page concludes, the government should be running a surplus by spring 2015…
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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