Government of Canada

About: Government of Canada is a government organization based out in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Debt. The organization has 796 authors who have published 886 publications receiving 21366 citations. The organization is also known as: federal government of Canada & Her Majesty's Government.

Determination Of Mexacarbate And Five Of Its Derivatives By High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

Abstract: A simple, sensitive and reliable analytical method has been developed and reported for mexacarbate (4-ditnethylamino-3,5-xylyl N-methylcarbamate) and five of its possible degradation products likely to be found in environmental samples using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with isocratic and gradient solvent systems. All chromatogram peaks were Identified through comparison to standards. The method has been used to identify and separate the six compounds from a mixture of the standards. It has been evaluated under different column conditions and with different mobile phases. Best resolution of the analytes was obtained by using a gradient solvent system consisting of CH3CN and H3O detecting at 200 nm and 30°C using a HP-RP8, 10 μ m, 20 cm 4.6 mm column.

Anti‐dumping at 100 Years and Counting: A Canadian Perspective

Abstract: The world's first anti-dumping measure was introduced by Canada as a ‘special duty’ that could be levied administratively rather than being enacted. This paper describes the features of this first measure in light of subsequent evolution of anti-dumping practice and sets it in its historical context – an era that was a high season of globalisation but also an era marked by an awakening of economic nationalism in newly industrialising countries, and by growing angst over the power of large corporations that were emerging to exploit the economies of scale allowed by mass production, as evidenced by the concurrent evolution of anti-combines legislation. Anti-dumping's early integration into economic theory as an international counterpart of domestic competition policy has received some official ratification in international treaties, and governments see it as a legitimate policy, albeit one in need of international disciplines. However, analysis of the pattern of its use reveals it to be an instrument of political economy, as a convenient alternative to the WTO safeguard option. The paper explores contextual reasons why today, in another high season of globalisation, marked by concerns over corporate globalism that evoke those of the earlier era, anti-dumping actions are proliferating where they did not then.

Trickling Down or Fizzling Out? Economic Performance, Transfers, Inequality and Low Income

Abstract: The objectives of this paper are to determine the empirical relationships between economic performance, transfers and low income among Canadian families, and to explore whether these relationships have changed over time. Similar recent studies in the US find a weakening in the relationship between economic growth and low income reduction over the past 25 years. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances of Statistics Canada, we find that there is a statistically significant negative relationship between economic performance and the incidence of low income among families in Canada for the period from 1973 to 1995. Government transfers are also found to lift families above the low income threshold. These results are robust across different family types and for three different measures of low income. We also find a weakening in the relationship between improved economic performance and low income reduction for most family types between 1973 and 1995, and for all family types after 1980. This weakening is associated with rising pre-transfer income inequality among families. Increasing inequality has also reduced the negative impact of transfers on low income rates.

Productivity and Prosperity in the Information Age: A Canada-U.S. Comparison

Abstract: This paper examines three sets of issues: a) the extent to which information technology has contributed to Canada’s productivity growth; b) how Canada's productivity performance compared to the U.S. and c) what was the impact of the recent Canadian productivity revival on prosperity. The study concludes that, in the late 1990s, Canada's multifactor productivity performance compared favourably to the U.S., information technology user industries contributed to a large extent to Canada's productivity revival and Canada's standard of living improved significantly primarily because of the increase in the labour utilization rate.