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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

Richard M. Bird

Richard M. Bird teaches in the International Tax Program at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

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Richard M. Bird

Is NAFTA Pushing Our Taxes Down?

Probably not, but our fiscal freedom is narrowing nevertheless September 2005
Amantra frequently heard from those concerned with our growing integration with our powerful neighbours to the south is that the inevitable outcome of this process will be a downward spiral of Canada’s health and social policies to American levels. One reason this will happen, it is said, is because the size of the Canadian public sector will have to shrink as our taxes are lowered to American…