Want to boost birth rates? Stop taxing mothers
Birth rates are hard for public policy to change. But it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try. A bold idea would be to grant mothers an income tax exemption.
Birth rates are hard for public policy to change. But it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try. A bold idea would be to grant mothers an income tax exemption.
For several decades Canada’s population growth rate hovered at about 1.0 percent annually. This rate has more than tripled in a few short years, up to 3.3 percent in 2023.
When governments, Left and Right, lose sight of the goal of long-term happiness, they revert to a faulty definition of liberty, one which puts pure individual freedom before human dignity.
Canada must grapple with this evidence as the legalization of MAID for mental illness looms. But gender disparity in MAID is already a reality in Canada, particularly within track 2 which lacks effective safeguards to prevent patients with mental illness from using MAID as a means of suicide.
When you lose sight of first principles, you lose the means to shape politics. You are stuck with a constrained choice between whatever options land on your desk. That is choosing, not governing.
PMO-based policy councils with dedicated policy staff would create a healthy tension with the system that would produce better policy outcomes.
In Norway, about 10 percent of people have private insurance. This makes the other 90 percent better off: fewer patients to serve means the public system can do more with the same.
Readers this week discussed ideas for how to improve Canada’s government, the crumbling immigration consensus, the country’s cratering self-employment rates, and Prime Minister Trudeau’s foreign interference testimony.
On the third anniversary of The Hub’s existence, here are ten things we learned over the past year, including that Canada has a prosperity predicament, the future of news is bright, and Canadian history is still contentious.
Given the rampant affordability concerns currently capturing Canadian attention, the government that oversees improvements in this area will win the loyalty of a generation, regardless of class.
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