Oil industry gets almost $3B in subsidies: Report
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
December 29, 2010
Canadian governments spent almost $3 billion subsidizing the oil industry in 2008, according to a recent report by a Winnipeg-based research institute… The International Institute for Sustainable Development… found 63 separate subsidy programs across Canada, mostly meant to increase exploration and development through a mix of tax breaks and royalty reductions… the research institute doesn’t see much benefit for taxpayers in the various federal and provincial subsidy programs. It calculates the subsidies will boost provincial economies by between 0.1% and 0.16% in the next decade
Tags: economy, ideology, tax
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First Nations’ well-being gap getting worse
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
July 13, 2010
In a report quietly released recently, the federal government acknowledged that “there has been little or no progress” in overall community well- being among First Nation and Inuit communities since 2001… Among the bottom 100 Canadian communities, 96 were First Nations… there’s what Graham describes as the “curse of aid” — that large fiscal transfers to reserves have created dependency and fostered unaccountable governance… “If this isn’t the top issue of our social policy agenda, what is?”
Tags: Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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