It’s showtime: Morneau’s economic advisory council calls for $15-billion skills development initiative, tax cuts, policy changes

With the council’s work at an end, now would be a good time for the government to re-establish an arm’s length economic research agency to conduct independent and non-partisan basic research on the Canadian economy and to advocate policy.

Get this show on the road: Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, pictured Dec. 13 in the Commons foyer.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

December 18, 2017

TORONTO—Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth has issued its third and final report. Chaired by Dominic Barton, global managing director of the consultancy McKinsey & Company, the 14-member council was appointed early last year and held its first meeting in May ...

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