“That means EI isn’t an insurance program, despite its name. It is both a tax on employment and an inter-regional transfer of wealth. If it were truly an insurance program, premiums would be charged according to the likelihood a worker would make a claim.”
Year: 2010
EI Favours East Coast, Study Finds: Ontario, West ‘left to fend for
“The situation for Canada as a whole wasn’t much better. Only 46% of unemployed Canadians received EI benefits during the recession of 2008-09, compared with 71% and 76% in the recessions of 1981-82 and 1990-91, the study found.”
Taxi Industry Reports Tired and One Sided: Ignores past seventeen years of evidence.
The people of Regina and Saskatoon have been sold short by taxi industry studies that don’t look at all the available evidence, in fact ignoring all evidence published since 1993.
Global Trade: Should Saskatchewan be an Australia or a Tasmania?: The breadth of human collaboration has defined prosperity for eons.
Open trade drives prosperity by allowing specialised labour and the exchange of new ideas, a forward looking Premier should not be saying things like “he doesn’t understand how we could benefit” from foreign investment such as BHP Billiton’s investment in PotashCorp. Through the long lens of human history the answer is obvious.
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We Pay For World-Leading Care But Don’t Get It;: Public policy centre’s survey of health outcomes suggests Canadians aren’t getting the best value for their medical dollars
“The survey, done for the third year running by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, spurns the usual measures of health care — money spent and resources available.”
European Health Care Bests Canada: Expert
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