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Macdonnell, J.M., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1940), 28 Mar 1940, 394-411     Problems facing the business community which we will neglect at our peril. The question as to whether these problems will be solved through our system, by the exercise of courage, imagination and initiative and the qualities that go with it, or whether it will be left to be solved by ...

    The presentation of the 2008-09 Ontario budget to the legislature yesterday. Stronger-than-expected growth in 2007. The growth expected in 2008. Some sectors facing serious difficulties. Factors affecting growth forecasts and creating uncertainty. The government maintaining its approach. The five-point economic plan. Investing in skills, education, infrastructure, supporting innovation, lowering business ...

Kelso, Louis O., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1974), 21 Feb 1974, 234-249     A wide-ranging discussion or thesis on economic policy in general, and Canadian economic policy specifically. Thoughts about technological change and what it is supposed to do for us. Why Canadian business strategies don't work well. Effects of conventional finance. Models of financing. Techniques of financing: a comparison and models. A ...

Thatcher, The Rt. Hon. Margaret, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1984), 27 Sep 1983, 19-34     Responsible and prudent economic policies within countries, and between countries. Economic freedom. Over-protective government. Personal responsibility and private initiative. Public expenditure as a proportion of national income. Decreasing government ownership and regulation. Personal tax reduction.

Rockefeller, David, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1972), 16 Dec 1971, 124-137     A review of the underlying reasons for the deterioration in monetary conditions in recent years. Observations on the resulting strain put upon world economic ties in general, and especially between Canada and the U.S. Proposals for additional ways of restoring a more flexible monetary system. The devaluation of the U.S. ...

Iliff, Sir William, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1963), 11 Oct 1962, 11-25     A detailed and personal retrospective and history of the World Bank. A review of some of the major changes that have taken place in the world over the last 15 years, the paramount one being the population increase. The World Bank since 1948 when the speaker became Director of the ...

Lougheed, W.F., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 23 Oct 1947, 72-81     Shifting from a war-time to a peace-time footing. A presentation of what appears to be "one of two current political-economic conflicts—conflicts which must be resolved before we are to achieve the peace and prosperity so confidently referred to during the latter years of war, and so wistfully considered at the ...

James, Dr. F. Cyril, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 12 Feb 1948, 238-252     A review of wartime policies adopted by the government of Canada which avoided the temptations of monetary inflation. A cursory survey of monetary conditions aorund the world indicating the extent of our failure to attain in the great majority of countries the high hopes of Bretton Woods that were embodied ...

Marshall, Dr. F. Ray, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1978), 17 Apr 1978, 396-406     The settling of the coal strike. How it was settled. Lessons learned. Some concerns about some international employment problems relating to energy and coal utilization. How the Carter Administration handled the coal strike. Two major objectives were to minimize damage to the public and to facilitate a collectively bargained settlement. ...

Rogge, Herbert H., The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1954), 18 Feb 1954, 202-219     Being future minded in Canada. The speaker's company celebrating its fiftieth anniversary by sponsoring the Conference on Canada's Tomorrow held in Quebec City last November. Some of Canada's important personalities who participated. Some forecasts for Canada looked at during this Conference. The nature and degree of Canada's progress in the ...

Simpson, His Worship, Mayor James, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club of Canada, 1935), 10 Jan 1935, 183-196     The ever continuing evidence of a great change in the social order. A revolution in the thinking of the Prime Minister of Canada. His recent declarations before the Imperial Conference in the City of Ottawa. An analysis as to the measure in which the Prime Minister has changed his attitude ...

Hoffman, Paul Gray, The Empire Club of Canada Addresses (Toronto, Canada: The Empire Club Foundation, 1948), 15 Jan 1948, 179-194     A sharing of the speaker's worries about the United States, justified by the interdependence of the economies of Canada and the U.S. The understatement that 1948 is a year of great crisis. The need to determine methods for the control of inflation, the manner in which our foreign aid programme ...

    The presentation of the budget yesterday in Ottawa. Where we are and where we are going. Some reference to members of the audience. The permanent sharing of the federal gas tax. The third budget of this Government of Canada. An economic plan for Canada. Steps taken yesterday as additional ones ...