How Ottawa’s budget will influence manufacturing and internal trade
Manufacturing will be a hot topic in battleground Ontario. And the industry should be pleased today, says Mike Moffatt.
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Mike Moffatt
Mike Moffatt is the Director of Research and Policy at Canada 2020 and an Assistant Professor in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group, Ivey Business School, Western University.
’How did everything go so terribly wrong?’
Mike Moffatt, a member of Trudeau’s economic council of advisors, tells the federal Liberal caucus about the erosion of southwestern Ontario’s economy
If you want to reform EI to boost hiring, go back to the 1990s
The Liberals propose dusting off an old EI-reform program that would avoid the flaws in the government’s Small Business Jobs Credit
The dangerous, misguided flaw in the small business tax credit
The Harper government’s new boutique tax credit makes it better for some companies to fire workers or cut their pay than to hire new ones
How to get ahead in think-tanking
A new jobs study has Jason Kenney intrigued. Mike Moffatt explains why it’s wrong
Canada is the best jobs creator in the G7? Not so fast
Mike Moffatt busts the myth that Canada’s job-creation record is better than America’s
The closer you look, the weaker Canada’s job market appears
A refined look at the data shows that some demographics in the labour force are enduring near-historic unemployment rates
The iPod tax is dead. Good riddance.
This was an absolutely unnecessary battle
Three big things economists were watching in the debate
The leaders offered laundry lists of policies and priorities without giving voters enough of the details
Did you hear the one about Ontario growing faster than China?
A literal reading of the faulty math behind the Ontario PC’s Million Jobs Plan leads to laughable conclusions