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Canada Needs to Recommit to Prosperity-Producing Policies

on December 12th, 2015 by The Afro News

The Chretien Consensus served Canadians well for more than a decade and can again Canada’s sweeping rejection of the Chretien consensus amounts to a puzzling and hopefully temporary repudiation of prosperity and the policies that produced it. A generation ago, Canada enjoyed a renaissance. The revival was rooted in sound fiscal policy (balanced budgets, focused

Filed under: Business, Canadian News, Finance, The Bridge Tagged as: Canada economy, economic prosperity, economists, reduced business tax, The Chretien Consensus

Minimum Wage Laws An Ineffective Anti-Poverty Strategy

on May 5th, 2014 by Honore Gbedze

Policy choices that threaten to cause employers to offer workers fewer hours counter-productive By Ben Eisen &  Shaun Fantauzzo Minimum wages are increasing steadily right across Canada. Nova Scotia, for example, recently boosted its hourly wage floor to $10.40. In June, Ontario’s will increase to $11 per hour. Since 2008, Manitoba’s minimum wage has increased

Filed under: Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Ben Eisen, economists, Minimum wages, Poverty Strategy, Shaun Fantauzzo
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