Jack Mintz Quotations

When one has money like this, you want to invest it the best way possible, where you can maximize the gains from it, ... If you want to get money back to people, I think cutting taxes is a good idea, especially cutting taxes that are doing the most harm to the economy, rather than just giving a blank cheque to people.

If you can have your cake and eat it too, why not try to do both.

People don't understand productivity but they do understand if you have a job with a good level of pay, it's better over the long run.

non-sensical. But to settle the softwood lumber dispute, does that mean we undersell energy products?

If these important productivity-enhancing measures are going to be put on the back burner because the minority government is too afraid to work out the support for these sorts of things, I think Canadians are going to get rightfully very concerned about whether they're going to have a good government over the next couple of years.

These investors, who comprise over 60 percent of the equity market, prefer companies to convert business assets into income trusts since they can avoid paying corporate taxes at a 35 percent rate.

Given the competitive and demographic challenges facing Canada, tax reform is increasingly urgent. In the coming years, Canada should not simply react to changes in tax policy abroad, but should take the initiative and adopt policies that would unleash the Canadian tiger.

These timing issues have to be figured out.

This is not a good strategy to be on top of the world,

The real answer to improving wealth in other provinces... is to pursue wealth-creating policies - especially in the largest province, Ontario,