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Pages tagged "infrastructure"


Recognition of informal gatherings of place and space

Posted on News & Blogs by Sharine Taylor · February 27, 2020 9:10 AM

To what extent should urban neighbourhoods and local businesses be impacted by the construction of transit or other infrastructure projects?

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Touchstones for a Progressive Federal Budget in the Age of Trump

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · March 09, 2017 9:42 AM

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The major challenge for the federal government in the budget expected this month is to maintain its commitment to progressive social and economic policies in the context of a major shift to the political right in the United States.

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The case against privatization and P3s

Posted on News & Blogs by Jonathan Sas · December 15, 2016 10:46 AM

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When the Liberal party campaigned and won in 2015 on making significant new investments in infrastructure, there was cause for optimism.

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The digital economy will not power a recovery

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · December 01, 2016 9:00 AM

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Economists and pundits are at odds over medium term prospects for the global economy. Pessimists see stagnant growth, rising inequality and growing unemployment and underemployment, widely held to be responsible for the rise of right-wing populists such as US President elect Donald Trump. 

Meanwhile, techno optimists such as Erik Bryjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, the authors of The Second Machine Age, argue that the digital economy will drive rapid productivity growth and underpin the gradual emergence of a post scarcity economy capable of providing prosperity for all.

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Liberal fiscal plan scales back "historic" infrastructure spending

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · November 04, 2016 12:05 PM

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The Trudeau government's fiscal plan as updated in the Fall Economic Statement meets a number of progressive commitments, but also raises a lot of questions about what can be expected of  the federal Budget to be tabled next March.

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Fiscal update: privatization of public infrastructure a major step in wrong direction

Posted on In the News by Broadbent Institute · November 01, 2016 5:56 PM

 

 

STATEMENT by Andrew Jackson, Senior Policy Advisor, Broadbent Institute, on the fall Economic and Fiscal Update.

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Private infrastructure bank not in the public interest

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · October 29, 2016 8:00 AM

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The Advisory Council on Economic Growth chaired by Domenic Barton has proposed to federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau the creation of an independent Canadian Infrastructure Development Bank (CIDB) to help finance $200 billion of public infrastructure projects over the next decade. There is an argument for improved financing tools, but no case for such a lever for massive and costly privatization.

The report of the Council reiterates the consensus view that investment in public infrastructure such as roads, mass transit, railways, ports, water and waste water treatment, clean energy and power grids has been too low, and that a major increase could drive immediate job creation while also boosting longer term economic growth.

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Budget submission 2016 — charting a progressive agenda

Posted on News & Blogs by Broadbent Institute · February 02, 2016 5:26 PM

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The Broadbent Institute is an independent, non partisan organization that promotes progressive change. Grounded in social democratic values and ideas, the Institute seeks to deepen our democracy, encourage strong action to counter growing economic and social inequality, and fuel a transition to a more innovative and sustainable economy. This submission lays out concrete policy proposals that the government should consider if it is serious about implementing progressive reforms in Budget 2016.

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Employment insurance measures a must for fiscal stimulus

Posted on News & Blogs by Angella MacEwen · January 26, 2016 11:07 AM

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Low oil prices have taken their toll on an already weak Canadian economy, where household debt levels are at record highs and business investment continues to lag. The Bank of Canada held off on a further rate cut this week, opting instead to wait and see the size and structure of fiscal stimulus in the upcoming federal budget.

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The global slump and the monetary taboo

Posted on News & Blogs by Andrew Jackson · November 28, 2015 8:52 AM

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Seven years after the great financial crisis of 2008, the world economy remains at high risk of a new slump despite continued ultra low interest rates. The IMF has called on the United States to put any interest rate increase on hold so as not to worsen the still extremely weak economic situation in Europe and developing countries, notably China.

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