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The original EITI (Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative) model called for a company to report on a project by project, company by company basis, with no exemptions. The rationale was that this would help civil societies talk directly with local government about local projects and will allow such oversight actors to carry out more accurate analyses […]
Brian Livingston is an Executive Fellow at The School of Public Policy, with a background in the resource area. In November of 2014, the Government of Canada passed legislation requiring resource entities (usually corporations) in Canada to publish the payments they make to various governments in the world. This blog will examine the key […]
The main purpose of taxation is to finance public spending. Tax systems can also be used to achieve a variety of economic, social and environmental objectives. One of the main results in economic theory is that incentives matter in affecting economic performance and taxation has a major impact on incentives by causing a divergence between […]
Most people don’t think about energy until it isn’t there when they need it. Just imagine one million people without power to their TVs during last night’s airing of The Walking Dead? Many would be outraged, but- what about the rest of the time? Where, when and how do we talk about energy in Canada, […]
As a frequent user of Calgary public transit, I often think about how we can improve the public transit system, and I can’t help but notice what we might have done better. One issue I tend to wrestle with is how we pay for transit access as individual users. How a municipality implements transit fees […]