It’s Federal Budget Day 2023, and it’s tax season, and among the spending and revenue measures being proposed by the Liberal government are changes to capital gains taxes. Director of Policy and Engagement Clement Nocos chats with Professor Jonathan Rhys Kesselman, reacting to changes and missing measures in Federal Budget 2023 for a fairer capital gains taxation system. 

Ahead of Budget 2023, much speculation had been made about capital gain reforms, and to help us make sense of this, I’m joined by Broadbent Policy Fellow Professor Rhys Kesselman, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University.

Professor Kesselman is a frequent commentator on issues of public finance, taxation, and economic policy, and wrote a new paper in March 2023 for Finances of the Nation, a Canadian Tax Foundation publication, looking at pathways to reform of capital gains taxation in Canada. Listen to the full conversation.

Read his latest paper, Pathways to reform of capital gains taxation in Canada, published March 2023 in Finances of the Nation.

The Broadbent Institute is pleased to announce Jennifer Yin Barrett as the organization’s new Senior Director of Strategy and Operations.

Jennifer comes to the Institute with over a decade of experience in strategic leadership at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.

She served as the Director of Community Engagement for the Official Opposition at Queen's Park, overseeing policy development, stakeholder relations and on-the-ground organizing with diverse communities. Jennifer leads the delivery of the Progress Summit, as well as the Emerging Leaders Program, and looks forward to expanding the Institute's convening, training and exchange of ideas within the growing progressive movement.

On the appointment of Yin Barrett to the new Senior Director role, Executive Director Jen Hassum says, “I’m excited to welcome Jenn, with her wealth of campaign organizing and community engagement experience. Her expertise and planning will help the Institute implement and expand our progressive programming, paving the way for our movement to build a better society.”

A graduate of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Jennifer balances her time between Toronto and Ottawa.

Industrial policy should be designed to achieve Canada’s societally relevant goals—not as a defensive response to American events.

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Each year, in partnership with the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, and former MP and city councillor Olivia Chow, the Broadbent Institute has the honour of awarding the Jack Layton Progress Prize and Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research at the annual Progress Summit.

This year’s shortlist of Layton and Taylor Prize nominees represented an inspiring field of policy thinkers who have had a demonstrable impact on policy making, and activists who are organizing and achieving social change in Canada.