Battle over Potash Corporation - Ideal Solution is for Our Tax Climate to Favour Our Own Company Becoming a Larger Global Player
CEOs/Business Leaders Tend to Favour Companies’ Legal Rights to Dual-Class Share Structures; Beleive That Voting Shares Should Be Worth Many Times more than Non-Voting Shares
Business Leaders Divided about Whether to Extend Infrastructure Spending Deadline Beyond March 31st; Great Doubt that Any Federal Government Can Do Much for Canada in Light of the Global Economy; Federal Politicians Much More Capable of Harming than Helping our Economy—Ignatieff More Capable of Causing Harm than Harper by 4:1
Business Panel on Census Long Form Controversy: Apparent Reversal of Opinion, Almost No Support for the Status Quo
Gulf Oil Spill - Third in a Series BP and U.S. Government Both to Blame; BP Won’t Gain Much from Replacing CEO
No Winners from Census, Long Form Controversy Statistics Canada, Its Supporters, and Minister Clement Do Not Earn Goodwill from Business Panel
New Securities Regulator Vital for Canada’s National Interest, Efficient Markets, and Investor Confidence Regulator Will Have Head Office Despite Claims to the Contrary Business Leaders Divided about Toronto for Head Office Harper/Flaherty Earn Good Scores for Their Performance
Nobel Prize Economist Paul Krugman on Long Depression Rather than Great Depression—Neither, Says Business Panel; We’re in a Severe Recession
Provincial Deficits and Debt Loads: Cut Spending Across the Board, Privatize Some Healthcare Functions, Say CEOs and Business Leaders
Fox News North (Sun News) - It Will Win Large Share of the Panel’s TV Viewing But Is Unlikely to Influence Canadian Society as much as Fox News is Influencing the U.S.
China's Foxconn Scores Poorly with Business Leaders But Apple Won’t Suffer Fallout from Poor Conduct of Its Supplier; Foxconn’s Wage Hike - Forerunner of Wage Inflation
BP Gulf Disaster - BP and Obama Performed Badly; Gulf Fisheries and Tourism, Oil and Gas Developers in Sensitive Areas, BP, and White House Will All Bear the Brunt
G-8 and G-20 Agendas - Business Leaders Priorize Government Spending Prudence, Bank Transparency, and Stopping Iran Getting the Bomb
Oil Exploration Policy after the BP Disaster - Governments Caught between Environmental Pressure for Tougher Regulation and against Development vs. Ever Increasing World Demand and Unreliable Supply
The Economic Crisis in Greece: Part 2 of 2 - European Bailout Right Thing to Do But Greece Will Not Recover, Portugal and Spain Probably Next, and Canada’s Economy Stronger than U.K. or U.S.
The Economic Crisis in Greece: Part 1 of 2 Greece Unlikely to Recover Urban Turmoil and Violence Not the Main Economic Problem
Harper and Flaherty Score with their Opposition to a Special Bank Levy
Goldman Sachs Very Likely Guilty of Fraud, Say CEOs/Business Leaders on COMPAS Business Panel
Business Panel Concurs with Fraser Institute Report Saying Infrastructure Spending Did Little for the Economy; Panelists Reject Heavy Spending as Cure for Economy’s Ills, Attribute Harper Budget to Pressure from Public, G8, and Opposition Parties
Business Panel Agrees with White House Concern about Chinese Currency Manipulation, But This Is Perceived as Lesser among Beijing’s Sins
Housing Prices Expected to Continue Rising Because of Inflation Expectations with Hiccups Because of the HST