hitherto unexploited data from Statistics Canada’s Survey of Consumer Spending to examine the financial circumstances of the … elderly and discusses the implications for the design of Canada’s retirement income system. Hamilton notes that there are five … shows that the amount of income available for consumption, that is income after taxes, mortgage payments, savings, union …

reduce the double-taxation of saving. The main elements of public policy related to pensions in Canada cover these pillars …-pillar metaphor is still a fruitful perspective because it facilitates constructive responses to the pressures confronting Canada … policy”. Based on his examination of Canada’s pension and health-care systems, Robson makes a number of recommendations …

Income Supplement in 1968 and the reduction in poverty after 1973 to the maturing of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan regimes … universal medicare. Osberg also finds that relative to the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom, Canada has done the … best job in boosting the income levels of seniors above the poverty line. In his view, Canada has done a remarkable job in …

James E. Pesando looks at the 1998 package of reforms to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) that the federal government and … States. He expects that the issue will soon resurface in Canada and that policy options like benefit reductions, raising the …

principle as a basis for taxation in Canada. In his paper, Jack M. Mintz continues this discussion by setting out the case for … and against a consumption tax. He argues that the tax treatment of savings is likely to become a more central policy focus … various sorts; and the introduction of an exempt-yield tax savings plan (with restrictions on contributed amounts) that would …

Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …

In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to … argues that the elimination of the deficit has reduced risk premia and allowed the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates …

in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior economic performance of the Canadian economy relative to the U ….S. economy squarely on the back of the Bank of Canada, and dismisses structural explanations of the recession as lacking an …