business climate

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Corporate head offices are fleeing Canada

The combined federal-provincial business tax rate doubles or triples if companies grow their incomes above a modest level.


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Steep drop in business investment bad news for Canadians

Businesses in Canada went from investing approximately 79 cents per worker (for every dollar invested in the U.S.) in 2014 to only 55 cents in 2021.


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Rhetoric vs. reality—the Trudeau government’s dismal record on business investment

On the broadest measure of investment, the Trudeau government experienced an average annual decline of 0.2 per cent before the 2020 recession.