(An addition to my earlier post given that it is being construed as an endorsement – I found the NDP platform which was released after the Green platform to be very strong on job creation and it has a strong green jobs and environment component as well. I’ve pasted an…
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This was published today in the Globe and Mail’s online business feature Economy Lab. A fuller analysis can be found at the PEF website, here. Stephen Harper has unveiled yet another plank in a platform that seems remarkably out of touch with the concerns of an electorate walking on post-recession…
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Here are the most important facts about the Tax Free Savings Account. Introduction of the Tax Free Savings Account: January 1, 2009, right at the height of the economic meltdown What’s new: Stephen Harper promises to double the contribution limits to the Tax Free Savings Account, from $5,000 a year…
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Tomorrow, Statistics Canada will release the labour force survey numbers for March. This may raise the low profile of the jobs issue in the election campaign. A single month’s release will signal if the job market is improving or deteriorating, though it is wise to bear in mind that the…
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In the decades following the Second World War, the growth of manufacturing and the expansion of public services extended middle class job opportunities to millions of non-professionals. By the time I was a young adult looking for a job in the 1970s, the manufacturing and public sectors together accounted for…
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Corporate tax cuts have become a defining feature of the election campaign thus far. The Globe and Mail covered the topic today with an article entitled “Corporate tax cuts don’t spur growth“. Stephen Gordon fired off a critique of the piece in his latest blog at the Globe and Mail’s…
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Every election, there are important reminders of the ignorance and racism Indigenous people face each day in Canada. The ignorance is quite literal. Entire election campaigns go by where the media mostly ignores First Nations, Inuit or Métis peoples. Take clean water for example. Trouble with the water supply in…
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It is notable that the Globe has run a major story today – on p.1, above the fold in the print edition – drawing attention to the fact that recent corporate tax rate cuts have not produced an increase in real business investment. It is interesting to note that corporate…
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Over on the CCPA website, we’ve posted an excellent article by intern Maria Gergin on the Harper Government’s record of silencing dissent. The article includes a list of 79 community organizations, agencies, NGOs, research bodies and programs which have been cancelled, or whose funding has been cut or dramatically decreased…
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Today the CCPA released a study that I authored which examines and debunks one of the biggest contentions of this campaign, that corporate tax cuts create jobs. One of the key reasons cited by the Conservatives for continued corporate tax cuts is that they are needed to encourage job growth….
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