Finance committee  Absolutely: We have to keep more people in the workforce past 65, yes, if they're healthy and able.

Finance committee  That's the position I've said publicly in my various media interviews, and I have looked at the data very closely. Just very quickly, the OECD, which is absolutely top-notch and impartial, showed that only two countries.... It was remarkable when you looked at the data. The PBO

Finance committee  I don't believe so. No. I don't believe so. The income support is no longer needed.

Finance committee  I'll be brief. I thought that the policy of the government providing income support from the beginning of COVID in March 2020 was completely appropriate. We were in this massive crisis. We didn't know where it was going. We didn't know how lethal it was and so forth. We all know

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee, for inviting me. In 1953, the year I was born, Sir Isaiah Berlin, the great Oxford philosopher, wrote a remarkable book, in part about animals. Berlin stated that there are two kinds of thinkers in the world: the hedgehog and the fox. Hedgeh

Finance committee  Targeted day care. I think there's wide support in the country for day care. The question is are we going to give it to wealthy lawyers or accountants or professors...?

Finance committee  The second is I think that we've got to revisit the CERB and make sure it is not a penalty on employers. I'm talking to too many employers who are finding that the CERB is preventing people from returning to work, because—I'm sorry that people will be upset at this—there are not

Finance committee  Thank you. As you know, there's a lot of discussion on this right now, and that's why I focused on the universal question. There are discussions about universal pharmacare, and there were discussions up until a week ago about a universal guaranteed annual income. I think it is

Finance committee  I agree. Airlines would be at the top of the list, and oil and gas. I don't think we should allow—I've said this in some of my public comments—ideology, which is the word I'm using, to say that some industries are somehow inappropriate because they are, in the view of some people

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you for inviting me to appear before the finance committee concerning the most momentous budget to be delivered in modern times in Canada at the federal level. Here are my three disclosures: First, I do not consult to anyone anywhere. Secon

Finance committee  That's Professor Mintz's domain. He has published more peer-reviewed...I'm sorry, I read my literature. I read deeply because I'm a professor so I have the time. He has published on that subject more than any other Canadian, period.

Finance committee  I'll be very quick. I published, in How Ottawa Spends, I think the definitive account of the Liberal government's downsizing, 1995-98 with—full disclosure—the help of two anonymous, very wonderful public servants who fed me extraordinary amounts of data. To answer the question,

Finance committee  Thank you, Chair. I thank the finance committee for the invitation to appear, but first, here are my disclosures, which are standard. I do not have any conflicts of interest because I don't consult or have any investments of any kind anywhere. Secondly, I don't belong to or dona

Finance committee  I was invited before the Pearson Institute, I think in January, and I gave a paper on this. I also published an op-ed on this. I fully acknowledge the criticism of critics of my position who say, “Look, the federal government is wealthy, and it's very strong fiscally”, which it i

Finance committee  If I understood your question, I think you're asking whether a targeted pharmacare program would contradict our universal general health care system.