C.D. Howe Institute Commentary

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2024, issue 651

The Scope and Nature of Private Healthcare in Canada

Katherine Fierlbeck

2023, issue 650

The Need for Speed: The Benefits of Faster Payments and How to Achieve Them

Jeremy Kronick and Thorsten Koeppl

2023, issue 649

Let it Fail? Reflections on the SVB Collapse and the US and Canadian Approaches to Bank Crises

Dan Ciuriak

2023, issue 648

Empty Seats: Why Labour Shortages Plague Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and What to Do About It

Parisa Mahboubi and Tingting Zhang

2023, issue 647

Working Harder for Less: More People But Less Capital Is No Recipe For Prosperity

William Robson and Mawakina Bafale

2023, issue 646

ABCs of Fiscal Accountability: The Report Card for Canada’s Senior Gov'ts, 2023

William Robson and Nicholas Dahir

2023, issue 645

The Missing Ingredient: Solving Canada’s Shortcomings in Growing Large Firms and Increasing Productivity

Charles Plant

2023, issue 644

Fiscal COVID: Scaling Up Is Hard To Do: Financing Canadian Small Firms

Miwako Nitani and Aurin Shaila Nusrat

2023, issue 643

Fiscal COVID: The Pandemic’s Impact on Government Finances and Accountability in Canada

William Robson and Nicholas Dahir

2023, issue 642

From Class to Career: How Work Integrated Learning Benefits Graduates Looking for Jobs

Rosalie Wyonch and Bradley Seward

2023, issue 641

Live Long and Prosper? Mandatory RRIF Drawdowns Raise the Risk of Outliving Tax-Deferred Saving

William Robson and Alexandre Laurin

2023, issue 640

Show Us Our Money: Fiscal Accountability in Canada’s Cities, 2022

William Robson and Nicholas Dahir

2023, issue 639

Better for Workers, Better for All? Assessing a Portable Health Benefits Plan in Ontario

Chris Bonnett

2023, issue 638

The Morning After: A Post-Binge Federal Shadow Budget for 2023

William Robson, Alexandre Laurin and Don Drummond

2023, issue 637

Stablecoins: Sailing without a Rudder

Jeremy Kronick and Mark Zelmer

2023, issue 636

Calibrating Competition Policy for the Digital Age

Daniel Schwanen

2022, issue 619

Time for a Tune-up: Reforms to Private-Sector Auto Insurance could Lower Costs and Add Value for Consumers

David Marshall

2022, issue 618

The Challenges Facing Target-Benefit Plans: Changes Are Needed to Provincial Pension Standards

Barry Gros

2022, issue 617

Solving the Municipal Budget Mystery: Fiscal Accountability in Canada’s Cities, 2021

William Robson and Miles Wu

2022, issue 616

Automatic Tax Filing: A Challenging Idea for Canada

Alexandre Laurin and Nicholas Dahir

2022, issue 615

Building Bridges for 5G: How to Overcome the Infrastructure Barriers to Deployment of Canada’s Next-Generation Broadband Networks

Leslie Milton, Jay Kerr-Wilson and Paul Burbank

2021, issue 588

For the Record: Assessing the Monetary Policy Stance of the Bank of Canada

Steven Ambler and Jeremy Kronick

2020, issue 577

The ABCs of Fiscal Accountability: Grading Canada’s Senior Governments, 2020

William Robson and Farah Omran

2020, issue 576

Student Performance in PISA 2018: Nettlesome Questions for Canada

John Richards

2020, issue 575

Licence to Capture: The Cost Consequences to Consumers of Occupational Regulation in Canada

Robert Mysicka, Lucas Cutler and Tingting Zhang

2020, issue 574

Gaps, Quirks and Fixes: Accounting for Broader Public-Sector Pension Plans in Canada

William Robson

2020, issue 573

Internal Trade in Focus: Ten Ways to Improve the Canadian Free Trade Agreement

Ryan Manucha

2020, issue 572

Lifting Lives: The Problems with Ontario’s Social Assistance Programs and How to Reform Them

Parisa Mahboubi and Mariam Ragab

2020, issue 571

The Shifting Ground of Pension Design: Reflections on Risks and Reporting

Robert Baldwin

2020, issue 570

Calibrating Macroprudential Policies for the Canadian Mortgage Market

Scott Brave, Jose Lopez and Jeremy Kronick

2020, issue 569

Filling the Gap: Emergency Funding Programs and Asset-Based Finance in Times of Economic Crisis

David Powell

2020, issue 568

The Era of Digital Financial Innovation: Lessons from Economic History on Regulation

David Longworth

2020, issue 567

Supporting Growth, Restoring Confidence: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2020

Alexander Laurin and William Robson

2020, issue 566

There is No Try: Sustainable Healthcare Requires Reining in Spending Overshoots

William Robson

2020, issue 565

What You See is Not What You Get: Budgets versus Results in Canada’s Major Cities, 2019

Farah Omran and William Robson

2020, issue 564

Predicting Financial Crises: The Search for the Most Telling Red Flag in the Economy

Steve Ambler and Jeremy Kronick

2020, issue 563

Water in the Wine? Monetary Policy and the Impact of Non-bank Financial Intermediaries

Yan Wendy Wu and Jeremy Kronick

2020, issue 562

Monetary Policy, Income Inequality, and Inflation—What’s the Link?

Francisco Villarreal and Jeremy Kronick

2020, issue 561

A Work in Progress: Measuring Wage Gaps for Women and Minorities in the Canadian Labour Market

Tammy Schirle and Moyosoreoluwa Sogaolu

2019, issue 560

From A to F: Grading the Fiscal Transparency of Canada’s Cities, 2019

Farah Omran and William Robson

2019, issue 559

Living Tree or Invasive Species? Critical Questions for the Constitutionality of Federal Carbon Pricing

Grant Bishop

2019, issue 558

Choosing Canada: Canadian Cultural Policy in the Twenty-first Century

Daniel Schwanen

2019, issue 557

The Bank of Canada and Financial Stability: A New Mandate?

Michael Bordo and Pierre Siklos

2019, issue 556

Ripe for Reform: Modernizing the Regulation of Financial Advice

Joanne De Laurentiis

2019, issue 555

Productivity and the Financial Services Sector – How to Achieve New Heights

Farah Omran and Jeremy Kronick

2019, issue 554

Decision Time: The Alberta Shadow Budget 2019

Grant Bishop

2019, issue 553

The Quest for Sustainability in Contingent Pension Plans

Barry Gros and Barbara Sanders

2019, issue 552

Bad Fits: The Causes, Extent and Costs of Job Skills Mismatch in Canada

Parisa Mahboubi

2019, issue 551

Health Teams and Primary Care Reform in Ontario: Staying the Course

Ake Blomqvist and Rosalie Wyonch

2019, issue 550

Thin Capitalization: Weak Business Investment Undermines Canadian Workers

William Robson

2019, issue 549

Into the Unknown: Reflections on Risk, Uncertainty and Monetary Policy Decision-making

Paul Jenkins

2019, issue 548

Big Spenders: Canada’s Senior Governments Have a Bad Budget Habit

William Robson and Farah Omran

2019, issue 547

Bumper to Bumper: Will the CUSMA Rules of Origin Make America’s Auto Industry Great Again?

Jon Johnson

2019, issue 546

Over the Top: Why an Annual Wealth Tax for Canada is Unnecessary

Robin Boadway and Pierre Pestieau

2019, issue 545

Show and Tell: Rating the Fiscal Accountability of Canada’s Senior Governments, 2019

William Robson and Farah Omran

2019, issue 544

Filling the Gaps: A Prescription for Universal Pharmacare

Rosalie Wyonch

2019, issue 543

The Great Pension Debate: Finding Common Ground

Robert Brown and Stephen Eadie

2019, issue 542

Branching Out: How Canada’s Forestry Products Sector is Reshaping its Future

Eric Miller

2019, issue 541

Regulating Alternative Medicines: Disorder in the Borderlands

Michael Trebilcock and Kanksha Ghimire

2019, issue 540

Central Banks and the Future of Money

John Murray

2019, issue 539

Time to Tweak or Re-boot? Assessing the Interest Arbitration Process in Canadian Industrial Relations

Richard Chaykowski

2019, issue 538

Next-Gen Financial Advice: Digital Innovation and Canada’s Policymakers

Chuck Grace

2019, issue 537

Tax Policy Next to the Elephant: Business Tax Reform in the Wake of the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Kenneth McKenzie and Michael Smart

2019, issue 536

Entrepreneurial Finance and Economic Growth: A Canadian Overview

Pierre Lortie

2019, issue 535

High Drug Prices, Big R&D Spenders and “Free Riders”: Canada in the Topsy Turvy World of Pharmaceuticals

Ake Blomqvist and Rosalie Wyonch

2019, issue 534

A Crisis of Our Own Making: Prospects for Major Natural Resource Projects in Canada

Grant Bishop and Grant Sprague

2019, issue 533

What the Doctor Ordered: Improving the Use and Value of Laboratory Testing

Christopher Naugler and Rosalie Wyonch

2019, issue 532

Health and Grades: Nutrition Programs for Kids in Canada

Rosalie Wyonch and Abby Sullivan

Santé et bonne scolarité: Les programmes d'alimentation saine au Canada

Rosalie Wyonch and Abby Sullivan

2019, issue 531

Less Debt, More Growth: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2019

William Robson and Alexandre Laurin

2019, issue 530

Managing Uncertainty: The Search for a Golden Discount-Rate Rule for Defined-Benefit Pensions

Stuart Landon and Constance Smith

2019, issue 529

L’équité intergénérationnelle: Nos enfants auront-ils une meilleure vie que nous?

Parisa Mahboubi

2019, issue 528

Dammed If You Do: How Sunk Costs Are Dragging Canadian Electricity Ratepayers Underwater

A.J. Goulding