Only a little more than six months after the iconic photo of the last US helicopter pulling out of Kabul was taken, Russia invaded Ukraine. This came hot on the heels of an accord between China and Russia that recognized each other’s respective “interests” in Taiwan and (implicitly)...

In this report five leading experts in health law and medicine at the University of Ottawa examine vaccine passports in the context of Charter rights, privacy rights, and implementation. The paper first explores whether a vaccine passport regime would infringe Charter rights, including mobility...

The current pandemic and the accompanying economic lockdowns have led to the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression. Fiscal and monetary authorities have acted in kind, with unprecedented stimulus and expansion of balance sheets. The Bank of Canada, for its part, dropped the...

Multi-employer, contingent-benefit pension plans cover hundreds of thousands of current and former employees of Canadian governments, and millions more in Canada’s broader public sector – employers such as hospitals, school boards, and colleges. Understanding the value of these plans’...

The recent pandemic has highlighted just how economically interdependent Canadians are with one another, and the extent of the nation’s intertwined domestic supply chains. As the economy re-opens, and with global protectionism looming, interprovincial trade barriers take on heightened...

Banking is the bedrock supporting all other Canadian industries. Without a robust, healthy banking industry, liquidity and investment in other industries will dry up. Stability is therefore a key pillar of financial sector policy. Regulatory barriers to entry have to a significant degree...

Little is known about how Canadian prudential supervision is conducted in practice because it has traditionally operated behind a veil of secrecy. While the federal Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) and its provincial counterparts have published the frameworks within...

This working paper uses an epidemiological-economic model to determine the optimal intervention strategy in order to achieve desired health outcomes while minimizing economic damage. The results show that, compared to a uniform lockdown in which everyone is locked down the same, a targeted...

With the federal government projecting swelling budget deficits in the Fall Economic Statement and then the 2021 Budget due to pandemic relief measures, debate is shifting to the revenue raising measures needed to pay for them. But before raising broad-based taxes, governments should evaluate...