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In the banking world CIBC has the nickname as ‘The Bank that runs with scissors.’

The cold plains of SK are a far cry from the dry warm plains of SA......On the other hand, an Irish person could almost feel right at home in NL.

The savings should be put directly to the bottom line of the ledger and pay the debt and reduce the deficit. What's economic point of just shifting the money over from one segment of society to another? How does that in any way benefit the entire country and its economic future? It simply...

In Greece, Brazil, Argentina, Romania its called Friday.

So save about less than 20k all in to go from say # 13 or # 2 or #23 or #9 to work/live in #15 or #1 or #16 for how many years?

The question would be, are the majority of them still in SK and NL 20yrs later?

They basically have tried this in the past - both for immigrants and for health care professionals - they create a 'fixed time period' that they need to reside in a place before they are 'free' to live somewhere else. It doesn't fix the issue problem at all. It merely kicks the can down the road.

Some of the issues surrounding Health Care, availability of service providers, etc, is extremely similar to Immigration coming into Canada. Immigration into Canada typically is heavily centered on a few provinces (Ontario, specifically south-west Ontario and GTHA), Alberta, (Edmonton-Calgary...

Understood. But the US has said that the F-47 will NOT be available to any but themselves, so we need an alternative.

would you add or alter - 'we should also pursue domestic production of the Gripen, along with the ability to produce future GCAP related production should Canada formally join GCAP.'

Fair statement.

If your concern is about 'us ending up like France', then any potential savings from clawing back or reducing OAS payments should go directly to the bottom line of the ledger, not to increasing, enhancing, expanding or creating government hand outs. Increasing the income levels of some senior...

The best path forward if OAS is going to be ratchetted back on seniors based on their income level is to reduce your contributions to a RSP and focus on your TSFA, with the goal of maxing it out to the highest amount possible. There will be many individuals looking to do this going forward...

And by your analogy that same individual should be raising the 3$/day to what, 15$/day, 25$/day, 40$/day 40yrs out? Thus moving the total return exponentially from 1.3m to 3-5m over those 40yrs If you have to question the logic behind saving the measly sum of 3$/day consistently each and every...

Which is the one that has ‘Main Rd’ running through it?