Income tax turns 100. What have we learned? on June 5, 2017Canadians are about to mark the anniversary of an event that gave birth to their modern country and shaped its present-day livelihoods like no other. No, not that event: Confederation was a comparatively minor shift from colonial to quasi-colonial status. We are talking about the creation, in the summer of 1917, of income tax. I […]
The free-trade fantasies of Theresa May on May 15, 2017Theresa May has seen the future, and the British Prime Minister seems to think it looks like Canada. So have her opponents in Brussels: They see a much darker sort of British future reflected north of the 49th parallel. In the Brexit feud, free trade with Canada is simultaneously the dream and the nightmare, the […]