With a number of formal quantifications of the multi-named new trade agreement for North America (USCMA in the United States, CUSMA in Canada and T-MEC in Mexico) now in hand, this note compares the estimates and draws conclusions about the sign (positive or negative) and scale (order of...

Debates about the relative merits of defined-benefit (DB) and defined-contribution (DC) pension plans have been a prominent part of pension discourse over the past forty years. The intensity of the debate has ebbed and flowed over the years but has been more intense in recent years as there has...

Canada’s municipalities deliver services that are critical to quality of life, and require major commitments of resources in taxes, fees and intergovernmental transfers. But their budgeting practices, and people’s ability to measure their municipality’s performance against its budget...

Interest arbitration, or third-party arbitration, is an essential element of the Canadian industrial relations system, with considerable impact on the public interest, particularly in relation to public-sector industries. As an instrument of labour relations policy, interest arbitration has...