Publications

What did Corporate Tax Cuts Deliver? (2013)

Due to ongoing corporate tax cuts, corporate income tax makes up a falling share of all government revenues. In fact, by the end of January 2011, corporations had fully paid their share of provincial and federal taxes, two days earlier than in 2010. The general federal corporate income tax rate stood at 28% in 2000. It was cut to 21%…

Child care in Canada: A scarce resource – the report

It’s now more than 40 years since the Royal Commission on the Status of Women first called for a national child care program. But although most mothers of young children now work outside the home, Canada still has no national child care policy.  Without federal financing and leadership and with widely divergent provincial/territorial programs, high quality affordable child care is…

“Boiling Point” A profile of the water crisis facing six First Nation Communities in Canada

First Nations have always viewed water as a sacred trust. From time immemorial, First Nations have centered their existence on water. From the careful selection of community sites, as a means of transportation and dependence on the harvest from the waters. Today, it is unacceptable that many of our First Nations should be subjected to conditions where there is no…

CLC Analysis of the 2013 Federal Budget

The major economic problem faced by Canadians today is not government deficits, or balancing the budget by the next federal election for electoral goals. The most pressing problems faced by Canadians are a sluggish economic recovery, a stalling job market, stagnant wages, record high levels of household debt, along with inadequate employment insurance coverage and lack of retirement security. Canadians…

Death and Injury at Work, Prosecutions

Police are often not enforcing the corporate criminal negligence laws introduced into the Criminal Code in 2004 through Bill C-45. These criminal code amendments introduced a legal duty for all persons “directing the work of others” to take reasonable steps to ensure the safety of workers and the public – in effect, it made certain safety breaches criminal issues. Unfortunately,…