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Author: David Macdonald

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 David MacdonaldLeave a comment
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

A child care policy for the people? Probably not—Post Budget edition

While the Childcare Access and Relief from Expenses (CARE) tax credit from Budget 2019 is very similar in design to what was in the Brown platform (which means the main points from my analysis a few days ago have been reinforced), with the provincial budget now in hand I can…
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April 10, 2019 David Macdonald1 Comment
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

A child care policy for the people? Probably not.

The Ontario Conservatives’ first budget is being delivered on Thursday. Normally this is the first opportunity for the public to compare the government’s plan with any promises the governing party made trying to get elected. In this case, since there was no Conservative campaign platform, and the Ford government has…
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March 19, 2019March 21, 2019 David MacdonaldLeave a comment
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

Aim high, spend low: Federal budget 2019

Despite a “surprise” boost in government revenue due to the strong economy, there aren’t many big ticket items compared to previous Liberal budgets.  There are actually big risks in baking big programs into the budget before an election, as all the parties can use the increased fiscal room for their…
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January 31, 2019 David MacdonaldLeave a comment
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

Want better stock performance? Pay your top executives less

At the start of January we released two reports looking at corporate executive pay. The first, our annual report on the 100 richest Canadian CEOs, calculated that by 11:33 a.m. on Jan 2, Canada’s richest CEOs had already made $50,759—the amount the average worker will make in a year. The…
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January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 David MacdonaldLeave a comment
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

Social impact bonds: Everyone’s profiting, except at-risk Indigenous women

Social impact bonds…they’re back in case you didn’t get enough of them here or here. This time around they are in Manitoba and it’s a $3 million program that involves doulas helping Indigenous mothers keep their kids out of foster care. As usual, the intervention itself sounds interesting and innovative. It…
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November 21, 2018November 21, 2018 David Macdonald1 Comment
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

Corporate tax cuts enrich shareholders, not competitiveness

Finance Minister Bill Morneau will deliver his fall economic statement this afternoon. As I was writing this, all indications were that the federal government would wisely sidestep a corporate tax cut war with the United States, much to the chagrin of rich investors in Canada. And let’s be honest. Canada’s…
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February 27, 2018February 27, 2018 David Macdonald3 Comments
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

An ambition constrained budget

Am I happy with the 2018 federal budget? Well, many of the items in it can be found in this year’s and past Alternative Federal Budgets (AFB), which of course is a good thing. But in general I’d say this is an ambition constrained budget. The government had the fiscal…
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September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 David Macdonald1 Comment
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

5 things to know about small business income splitting

This summer, the federal government proposed a series of reforms to the Income Tax Act designed to close certain tax loopholes and address tax avoidance. Finance Canada says these changes would impact Canadian-Controlled Private Corporations (CCPCs) in three key areas: income “sprinkling” (a type of income splitting), passive investments made…
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August 8, 2017 David MacdonaldLeave a comment
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

What $15 and fairness will mean for Toronto

Ontario’s big business lobbies continue their campaign against the government’s planned minimum wage hike—to $15 an hour by January 1, 2019 from the current rate of $11.40. They say the move is “arbitrary” and are threatening to flee the province unless the government backs down. This kind of rhetoric was…
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August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 David Macdonald1 Comment
David Macdonald

David Macdonald

How raising the minimum wage will impact Hamilton

Ontario’s big business lobbies continue their campaign against the government’s planned minimum wage hike—to $15 an hour by January 1, 2019 from the current rate of $11.40. They say the move is “arbitrary” and are threatening to flee the province unless the government backs down. This kind of rhetoric was…
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