50 Actionable Ideas for Canadian Prosperity

From a recent newsletter from the Tamarack Institute:

Canadians imagine their society as one which allows anyone with drive and ambition to reach his or her potential, regardless of socio-economic, religious or cultural background. But good public policy - grounded in community input - is needed to make this vision a reality. Maytree, a foundation that promotes equity and prosperity through leadership, recently published a report entitled Charting Prosperity: Practical Ideas for a Stronger Canada which outlines more than 50 practical policy proposals developed by its partners and grantees for realizing this vision. The policy ideas it promotes include:

• Making refundable the caregiver and infirm dependant tax credits;
• Creating a $2 million learning fund (over five years) to promote cross-community exchange for poverty reduction;
• Adopting a national action plan to combat human trafficking;
• Ending the low-skilled temporary foreign worker program; and
• Eliminating processing fees for refugees

Using an approach that Alan Broadbent, Chairman of Maytree, calls the “essential I’s” of public policy: Ideas, Investments and Instruments, these practical proposals are ready to be implemented by policymakers. Each recommendation includes details about why it is important, what specific investments should be made and what needs to happen for the change to be implemented.

Related Links:

• Download and read Charting Prosperity: Practical Ideas for a Stronger Canada
• Watch the Charting Prosperity webinar with Alan Brodbent, Chairman, Maytree and Sherri Torjman, VP, Caledon Institute of Social Policy
• Visit the Maytree Foundation website
• Find more ideas for creating a civil society