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Interest rate hikes, housing costs, rising taxes and stagnating wages are all crucial. We need to address these problems
What can't happen won't happen. If incomes are stagnant while taxes, prices and interest rates rise, people will fail to pay their debts – as is the case for 120,000 Canadians every year. The long-term buildup of urban house prices had already made people financially vulnerable and consumer insolvencies in Canada increased by 9.2 per…
Economists believe that raising the price of low-skilled labour just eliminates many of those jobs
Raising the minimum wage is a popular policy among voters. But economists dispute the value of such a raise. Why the discrepancy? Recent polls from Ontario found strong support for the province’s minimum wage hike. And in the United States, a Pew Research poll in 2016 showed that by a margin of 52 per cent…
Businesses cited weak market demand, high interest rates and a shortage of qualified staff as factors holding back investment
The business confidence of Canadian executives continues its downward spiral that began at the end of 2017 and is now at its lowest point in three years, according to the Conference Board of Canada. On Friday, the board released its Index of Business Confidence. It summarizes the views of business executives in Canada on the…
CPA Canada survey found concern about numerous external risks facing the economy
A new survey by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada says pessimism about the prospects of the national economy over the next 12 months is growing among Canadian business leaders. The CPA Canada Business Monitor found that pessimism among the professional accountants jumped to 35 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year, which…
Conventional oil and gas extraction was down 2.2% as both crude petroleum and natural gas activity decreased
Real gross domestic product in Canada edged down 0.1 per cent in November, partly offsetting an increase of 0.3 per cent in October, reported Statistics Canada on Thursday. “Decreases in wholesale trade, finance and insurance, manufacturing and construction more than offset gains in 13 of 20 industrial sectors. Goods-producing industries were down 0.3 per cent,…
Group’s focus is on what LNG means to the Canadian economy and to the overarching national interest
It may seem like an impossible challenge to crowdsource a narrative about building a better future for Canadians and their energy sector. A diverse group has set out to create a compelling and co-ordinated narrative around Canada’s global liquefied natural gas (LNG) opportunities. At a recent Calgary meeting, a diverse group of stakeholders agreed it’s critical to…
Increasing the size and role of government almost always comes with larger deficits, mounting debt and/or tax increases
By Jake Fuss, Milagros Palacios and Jason Clemens The Fraser Institute Fiscal prudence is a key aspect of any prime minister’s legacy. The choice to increase the size and role of government almost always comes with larger deficits, mounting debt and/or tax increases. Unfortunately, the federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has ignored these…
Oil and gas contributed some $117 billion to Canada’s GDP last year, six times the economic contribution of the Ontario auto industry
What was Canada’s biggest business news story of 2018? According to the pundits at The Canadian Press, it wasn’t the giveaway of Canadian oil to Americans for tens of billions of dollars below world prices, caused by a lack of pipelines from Alberta. It wasn’t the loss of tens of billions more in oil and…
The mineral and mining subsector drove the increase, led by potash
The natural resource sector, including energy, saw the volume of economic activity grow in the third quarter of 2018, according to Statistics Canada. The federal agency reported Thursday that real gross domestic product in the natural resource sector rose by one per cent in the quarter following a 1.4 per cent increase in the second…
Burdensome regulation, limited competition and unfavourable taxes hold Canadian companies back
Studies show that innovation is the driving force behind long-run increases in incomes in developed countries. But Canada is falling behind. The implementation and adoption of new methods of producing goods and services, along with the introduction and use of new products and new ways of organizing businesses, remain critical to improving living standards. Canada’s…
What can't happen won't happen. If incomes are stagnant while taxes, prices and interest rates rise, people will fail to pay their debts – as is the case for 120,000 Canadians every year. The long-term buildup of urban house prices had already made people financially vulnerable and consumer insolvencies in Canada increased by 9.2 per…
