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You are watching Market Makers on Bloomberg Television. I am Erik Schatzker. I am alix steel, in for stephanie ruhle. Were looking at burger king, tim hortons as well. And Canadian Dollar terms, it is 89. 32 a share. This is a whopping premium. If you go back to tim hortons whopping, good one. 39 . Clearly the brazilian billionaire behind the three g capital and burger king sees huge opportunities for canadian coffee and doughnuts. It doesnt hurt that Warren Buffett is interested in the deal and...

On Monday, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made misleading claims in introducing a motion in Parliament to increase taxes on capital gains

B.C. and Canada are not in a recession, but on an individual level, many British Columbians may be experiencing what feels like “a personal recession.”

A broader restructuring of the tax system would avoid some of the traps we are seeing with the capital-gains changes

Governments need to set fiscal guideposts and stick to them. They also need to simplify taxes, regulation and stop hurting growth. Read on.

Ottawa has to stop announcing tax changes and then backing off because they dont work. Its time for a seriously simpler system. Read on.

Resources drive exports, productivity, incomes and government revenue. Its time Canada stopped being embarrassed about them. Read more.

Theres only so much capital available. Government directing more of it into housing leaves less for productivity and income growth. Read on

The tax Ottawa currently imposes is not the tax economic science supports. To become that it needs to be reformed in several important ways. Read on.

Revenues often disappoint as high-income earners adjust their behaviour to minimize tax and reduce their economic activity. Read more.