Even before the Conservative government increased the contribution limit for Tax-Free Savings Accounts, the proportion of people maxing out their TFSAs had dropped dramatically from 64 per cent to under 18 per cent. Moreover, participation and maximization patterns by age and income suggest that asset shifting and income splitting are the primary sources of contributions … Read more
The Broadbent Institute announced the launch of the Stand up for Progress National Tour featuring Harry Leslie Smith as the country gears up for a fall federal election. Canada’s oldest rebel and author of Harry’s Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do To Save It will be travelling to six … Read more
The 2015-16 federal budget contains costly measures that will exacerbate economic inequality and see billions flow to Canada’s wealthiest families while leaving the majority of Canadians with no benefit at all, said the Broadbent Institute. More information is available online. Call 613-857-2814.
The country’s largest annual progressive politics conference came to a close with a renewed commitment to bring in a progressive agenda to build a better Canada. The Broadbent Institute’s second annual Progress Summit brought together over 800 delegates from across Canada to hear from leading thinkers, policy experts and organizers over three days in this … Read more
The Broadbent Institute published a report by University of Saskatchewan political scientist David McGrane entitled, “Could a Progressive Platform Capture Canada’s Youth Vote?” during its conference in Ottawa. The study analyses the results from the Comparative Provincial Elections Project. “While we found that Canadians are broadly progressive on most issues, there is a generational divide on some key issues,” … Read more
During this key election year and on the eve of the tabling of the federal budget, the Broadbent Institute is convening the largest annual progressive politics event for leading thinkers, policy experts and organizers. “This is a crucial time for Canada and the right moment to bring the progressive movement together as we head into … Read more
The existing Tax-Free Savings Account scheme is projected to cost the federal government up to $15.5 billion annually when it matures, and doubling the contribution limits would shift additional billions from tax revenues into the pockets of the already well-off, a new Broadbent Institute study has found. Double Trouble: The Case Against Expanding Tax-Free Savings Accounts, … Read more
Ed Broadbent, chair of the Broadbent Institute, welcomed five new board members: Patti Bacchus, Vancouver School Board Trustee; Michelle Beveridge, a Saskatoon-based communications and campaign consultant; Monika Dutt, chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare; Greg Marchildon, Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Economic History at the University of Regina; and Valérie Plante, deputy leader of the Official Opposition. The full … Read more
Canadians vastly underestimate the wealth gap in Canada and want a much more balanced distribution. This is the key finding in the first-ever survey to ask Canadians what they think the wealth distribution is and what they think the ideal should be. “Canada is much more unequal than Canadians think it is and a far … Read more
The Broadbent Institute’s Progress Gala is shining the light on important issues with a keynote address on inequality by former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. Reich, professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and a sought-after business commentator, is one of the North America’s most knowledgeable and persuasive thinkers about the widening … Read more
