A low-cost, high-impact measure to bolster investment, entrepreneurship, economic activity, and job creation

With the federal government likely to soon release its annual fiscal update, marking the unofficial lead-up to next year’s federal budget, Finance Minister Joe Oliver is bound to hear different ideas about how to use expected future surpluses. Oliver has said his government’s top priority is “prudent” new measures that encourage economic growth and “boost job creation.”

An important policy reform that fits the bill and one that would boost economic activity now and in the future is capital gains taxation.

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