The impact of the bipartisan effort to reduce Canada’s corporate tax rate.

In December 2017, President Donald Trump cut corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%, effective immediately. While certain critics quickly lamented this policy decision, the President is currently mulling a second round of tax cuts. In this context, the Canadian experience with corporate tax reduction provides a useful comparison.

Canada is stagnating or even losing ground in terms of competitiveness.

Canada is stagnating or even losing ground in terms of competitiveness.

Canada is much less competitive than it was in the past.

High Taxes and Fees Penalize Travellers.

June 21, 2018 | 9 min. 12 sec. | Afternoons with Rob Breakenridge (770 CHQR) Interview with Alexandre Moreau, Public Policy Analyst […]

The Canadian air transport sector has experienced significant expansion in recent years. Nonetheless, a multitude of taxes and fees are restricting its potential for growth. Given that favourable conditions are dissipating, especially when it comes to low fuel prices, what can governments do to reduce the fees imposed on transporters, and ultimately on travellers?

High Taxes and Fees Penalize Travellers.

A carbon market, like a carbon tax, aims to modify behaviours in order to reduce GHG emissions by setting a price for them. Although such mechanisms are regularly mentioned in the news, their economic consequences are less often discussed, to say nothing of their effectiveness. Does imposing a price on carbon always reduce emissions, or does it instead displace them, along with the accompanying economic activity? In the two scenarios examined here, the effect on GHG emissions would be negligible, but the economic impact would be significant.