Posts Tagged ‘economy’
When Canada negotiates with Donald Trump’s America, it’s not just trade that’s at stake. It’s our sovereignty
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
… CUSMA… does not just regulate trade. It restricts what Parliament can legislate, what regulators can require and what courts can enforce… Canada needs to govern its own digital economy. We need sovereignty over data, accountability for algorithms, and protection of critical digital infrastructure… We have just under sixty days until we move dangerously close to becoming the fifty-first state. We can still reverse course, but only if we act before the review’s July 1 Canada Day deadline.
Tags: economy, globalization, jurisdiction, rights
Posted in Governance Policy Context | 7 Comments »
Canada’s quiet economic driver: Universities and colleges
Friday, May 1st, 2026
Universities and colleges lead the way on driving economic growth: Universities and colleges’ economic output was worth $61 billion in 2025, which was 2.1 per cent of Canada’s total GDP—just $5 billion behind residential building construction, much more than all oil sands extraction ($49 billion), and almost twice as much as mining or transportation manufacturing (at $33 billion each)… Despite only making up about two per cent of Canada’s economy, the post-secondary education sector represents over 34 per cent of all research and development, which was much higher than Canada’s peer countries.
Tags: economy, Education, standard of living
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Canada Strong Fund
Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Designed to give all Canadians a direct stake in the Build Canada agenda… The Fund will invest in strategic Canadian projects and companies alongside other investors—with a clear objective to achieve commercial returns to build the wealth of Canada… When Canadians invest directly in the Canada Strong Fund, they will help fuel its growth and increase its ability to deliver meaningful benefits across the country.
Tags: economy, participation
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I’m giving the CRA an extra $1 million this year. Here’s why
Thursday, April 30th, 2026
Patriotic Millionaires recently commissioned new polling that found among Canadians with more than $1 million in assets (not including their homes), 71 per cent believe extreme wealth concentration is a threat to democracy, 62 per cent believe government leaders should do more to address it, and 65 per cent believe that governments should raise taxes on the very wealthy. .. Extreme wealth inequality is not inevitable. It’s the result of policy choices, and we can choose differently.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living, tax
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What Pierre Poilievre Doesn’t Get About His Economic Hero
Monday, April 27th, 2026
Poilievre presents justice — fairness, poverty reduction, the well-being of those left behind — as something that markets produce incidentally when they are left alone. The claim is that free markets lifted billions out of poverty; therefore the path forward is more free markets, fewer regulations, lower taxes, more oil and gas. But this framing depends on a separation of efficiency and justice that doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living
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As Canada’s K-shaped economic gap widens, democracy is key to fixing that. Here’s why
Friday, April 17th, 2026
A democracy can survive disagreement. It has a harder time surviving when a growing number of people feel they don’t belong in the same society at all… When an economy gives most power and stability to only a few people, it doesn’t just create inequality, it also weakens how people relate to each other in a democracy. Over time, that makes the country harder to govern, slower to adjust to change and more difficult to keep united.
Tags: economy, participation, standard of living
Posted in Equality Debates | 4 Comments »
Young Canadians are increasingly miserable. Government priorities show why
Saturday, April 4th, 2026
Governments have not matched the rise in spending on boomers with new revenue from that generation, which leaves too little to invest in affordable housing, education, training and family supports for their offspring… It’s about restoring fiscal balance so every generation can thrive.
Tags: economy, Seniors, standard of living, tax, youth
Posted in Equality Debates | 5 Comments »
Every President Tries It. It Never Works.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2026
Efforts to revive manufacturing are rooted in nostalgia. Once upon a time, manufacturing jobs provided a reliable pathway to the middle class… Not anymore… A smarter economic strategy would stop measuring success by the number of assembly lines reopened and start focusing on what actually raises living standards: productivity, affordability and the growth of the whole economy.
Tags: economy, ideology, standard of living
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A small group of Canadians are living it up. The rest of us are struggling. Welcome to the K-shaped economy
Saturday, March 28th, 2026
… Between [1999] and 2023, the top 10 per cent of wealthiest households in Canada have seen their net worth surge by 195 per cent. The bottom 10 per cent… has seen its wealth contract outright, by 43 per cent… We need to get a better grip on how wealth grows, who owns it, where it’s stored and where it’s hidden… And the potentially toxic social effects of such a disparity in possibility continue to fester.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Protected from voters’ wrath, Doug Ford’s latest budget defies fiscal reality
Friday, March 27th, 2026
Ford’s Tories have slashed traditional revenue sources by billions of dollars in good times — licence plate fees, gas taxes and tolls for drivers — only to drive the government deeper into deficit and debt… In the latest budget, those interest payments are now the Ford government’s fourth-biggest expenditure — after health care (41 per cent), education (16.7 per cent) and social services (8.8 per cent)…
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, jurisdiction, tax
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