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Recent efforts by the Bank of Canada to “talk down” the dollar in its public statements have led to public perceptions …
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Moving to price-level targeting from inflation-rate targeting could be a sound option for the Bank of Canada after 2011 …
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Canada/US exchange rate, we conclude that the present trading range for the loonie is supported by fundamentals. The Bank of … Canada should therefore continue its policy of benign neglect with regard to the exchange rate. …
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's bottom line well into the future, alleviating the pressure of aging on government finances and Canada's economy. …
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After years of looming power shortages, Ontario faces instead a periodic problem of excess electricity supply at the same time that new generation capacity is being added. Since Ontario government agencies that purchase power have long-term, fixed-price contracts with many electricity...
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Ontario’s Green Energy and Green Economy Act subsidizes producers of renewable electricity by paying them far more for their output than the prevailing market price of electricity. Wind power receives a fixed electricity price of 13.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, and solar receives even larger...
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Congestion on Canadian highways is having a significant negative economic impact on major Canadian cities. Rather than face the political challenge of introducing road tolls to discourage traffic, governments have chosen to build carpool lanes on urban highways, despite evidence that these lanes...
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What impact do the tax systems of Canada’s Western provinces have on families’take-home pay and seniors’ pension income …
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The Canadian federal government’s Bill C-25 provides for a new type of tax sheltered savings plan for Canadians called a pooled registered pension plan (PRPP). In its current form, however, the design blueprint falls short of its primary objective: to ensure that the majority of Canadians who...
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Investment in plant and equipment per worker by business in Canada has long lagged that in the United States and other … major developed countries, likely contributing to disappointing productivity growth in Canada. Fiscal and regulatory changes …
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