Bill Morneau
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Head of Canadian national wireless group calls for regulations that encourage 5G
Advocates of mobile virtual network operators argue that they could provide a lower-cost alternative to Canadians but Canadian regulations tend to favour network operators that own their facilities.
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Morneau hopes new NAFTA deal signed next week, stresses tariff issue is separate [UPDATED]
He says Canada is working with the U.S. to solve the tit-for-tat tariff dispute; won’t make one set of negotiations contingent on another.
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Ottawa fails to secure new buyer for Trans Mountain pipeline by deadline
Feds set to become official owner of project.
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Trudeau to talk Trans Mountain pipeline with Indigenous leaders in B.C.
Possible interest from First Nation in pipeline stake.
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External risks more acute for Canada than in the recent past: IMF
Recommends it’s time to examine its corporate tax in the face of the changes in the US.
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Key Kinder Morgan executives offered $1.5 million retention bonuses
Payments conditional on continued employment; stiff opposition from NDP, Conservatives.
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Additional $31.8B will be added to deficit over five years
Finance minister Morneau blames “new norm” of slow economic growth.
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Feds turns to infrastructure bank for help amid deeper deficit outlook
Government will prime the bank’s pump with $35 billion in public money to attract foreign capital.
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Feds monitoring weak economy: Morneau
Liberals could take action this fall.
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CPP reform was swift in policy making terms
…and five things you need to know about the Canada Pension Plan.
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Heading down the debt path again
The federal government’s planned $30-billion budget deficit, to be followed by three more deficits totalling $113 billion, brings to mind former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s observation: “It’s not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that…
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Alta. wildfire expected to have relatively modest macro economic impact
Finance Minister Bill Morneau says economic fallout will be largely contained to the current quarter of the fiscal year.
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‘Relatively aggressive’ change needed to lift Canada’s economy
Bill Morneau has tapped McKinsey & Co.’s Dominic Barton to draw a plan to lead Canada out of its cycle of feeble economic growth.
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Federal deficit outlook challenged by $7.5B surplus 11 months into 2015-16
Fiscal monitor suggests feds would have to run $13-billion deficit in March to reach a predicted $5.4-billion shortfall.
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Early highlights from the federal Liberal government’s 2016 budget
Federal government projects $29.4 billion deficit in 2016-17.
