As part of our federal election coverage, Investment Executive explores the positions of the major federal political parties on the top issues affecting the financial services industry.Here we look at where the parties stand on increasing Canada’s productivity:All three main federal political parties appear to be genuinely concerned about Canada’s weak productivity growth — and […]
As part of our federal election coverage, Investment Executive explores the positions of the major federal political parties on the top issues affecting the financial services industry.Here we look at where the parties stand on debt reduction:Producing balanced budgets every year and reducing debt are high on the to-do lists of the Conservatives and Liberals […]
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The economies of Canada and the U.S. are expected to grow at a healthy pace over the next two years, despite high oil prices, further increases in short-term interest rates and, in Canada’s case, a high dollar.Economists surveyed by Investment Executive may not form a consensus but collectively they expect U.S. economic growth to decelerate […]
The federal liberals’ recent flurry of pre-election spending announcements is affordable and mostly just fills in the details of initiatives announced in last February’s budget. But there is enough new that, should the Conservatives form the next government, that party will find itself constrained.At the top of the list is the $5.1 billion Prime Minister […]
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