Your Pension Dollars At Work

In Canada, there are few ways for investors to directly invest in H2O. However, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board recently launched a bid for a British water utility.

P3= Public Pension Partnerships

In Canada the biggest players in the P3 racket are public pension funds. Public sector workers pensions in fact. Both the Ontario Teachers Pension fund and OMERS are funds that are wanting to invest in privatization of public infrastructure. So perhaps we should call these...

Our Republican Finance Minister

"Flaherty's promise raises eyebrows Bill Robson, president of the C.D. Howe Institute, said the net debt figure isn't really a true indication of public debt because the Canada and Quebec pension plans also have major liabilities in the future when Canadians retire....

Rhetorical Question

""But big tax cuts cost big money. As the Star's Les Whittington reported this week, one of the anticipated cuts is income splitting, a neo-conservative pet project that would reduce federal revenues by — holy smokes — $5 billion annually.Is that good value?...

Not Real Tax Fairness

"Flaherty has tried to pass this income splitting proposal off as a "tax fairness" measure, saying that it will "strengthen the social security system" and "significantly enhance the incentives to save and invest for family retirement security."...