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« Il faut taxer davantage les riches! »
Do rich people pay enough taxes in Quebec?
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Canada’s pension plan straitjacket
Defined-benefit private pension plans.
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Taxer les riches les fait fuir
The effects of a tax increase for the rich.
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Party’s over for Euro welfare state
Why Europe is in such an economic mess.
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Why low interest rates not necessarily a blessing
The flipside to low interest rates.
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Caisse de dépôt: une stratégie prometteuse
The broad guidelines of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.
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Publicité trompeuse
Revenu Québec advertising campaign to counter tax evasion.
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Don’t mind the gap
Some factors suggesting income inequality is less important than might be thought.
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Should We Worry about Income Gaps?
The "Occupy Wall Street" movement, which spread to many cities around the world last fall, once again brought the never-ending question of income inequality to the forefront of public debate. Concerns about this issue have also been fed by studies that have appeared over the past year, especially those from the Conference Board of Canada and the OECD. However, even though these studies present data showing that income inequality in Canada has been tending to increase, the interpretation of their conclusions is not as obvious as it might appear at first glance.
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Poor returns from soaking the rich
The tax-the-rich rhetoric.