Harper-Flaherty Budget Earns Very High Marks from CEOs and Business Leaders Top Marks for Customs Tariff Simplifications, Ethics Monitoring of Charities, and New RESP Flexibility Panel Favours Even Lower Debt-to-GDP Ratio
Harper Program – Part II (Economy) CEOs and Business Leaders Embrace Almost All Conservatives’ Programs for the Economy, Especially on Canada-U.S. Border Issues, But Are Divided on Loans to New Canadians for Skills Development
Harper Program – Part I (Crime, Parliament, Family Tax Cuts) CEOs and Business Leaders Embrace Conservatives’ Crime, Tax, and Parliamentary Reform Programs But Are Divided on Health Transfers to Provinces
Wild Card—Possibly the Most Bizarre, Unstable, Upside-Down Election since Confederation Volatile NDP Support Could Rise to 36% or Fall to 20% in Next 36 Hours Depending on Voters’ Mood and the NDP Machine; Conservatives Could Actually Benefit from an NDP Faltering; Liberals Have Still More to Fear from the NDP; Faltering Bloc’s Main Hope Is Regaining NDP Voters
First of Two Reports Large Conservative Majority Harper’s Leadership Advantage Corners Campaign Momentum New Layton Charisma in Quebec
Second of Two Reports CBC’s “Vote Compass” Election Tool and Controversies The CBC Election Tool Transforms a Slight Conservative Lead among Website Visitors to an Overwhelming Liberal Majority Most Canadians and Most Visitors to the CBC “Vote Compass” Site Wrongly Believe that COMPAS Research Is Involved Because of the Similarity of Names and Graphic Marks
Healthcare - The C.D. Howe Report on Rising Healthcare Costs and the Growing Majority Support for Medical Freedom among Members of the CEO Panel
Federal Election and Canadian Business: Harper Trounces All Other Party Leaders; Economy and Spending/Taxation Top Issue; Trust - May Places 2nd, Ignatieff 4th
Serious Confusion between COMPAS Research and CBC’s COMPASS Election Tool
Flaherty Aces Budget: CEO Panelists Embrace Tariff Simplification, Monitoring of Charities’ Tax Receipting, Debt-to-GDP Ratio, Removal of Medical Expense Ceiling, GIS Increases to Seniors
Business Panel Backs John Manley’s Open Letter to Ontario Minister of Finance: Near Consensus That Provincial Debtor Governments Are in Serious Situations; Interest Rates and Soaring Health Costs - Major Risks
2011 Economic Forecast - Moderately Positive. 23 Months to Recovery High Scores for Bank of Canada and Harper Low Scores for Obama, U.S. Fed, and Congress
