Description: This article discusses certain recommendations of the Carter Commission, which calls for far-reaching reorganization of federal taxation in Canada.

Description: Book review of The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 1974, pp. 269 Setting National Priorities, the 1975 Budget. Federal spending now accounts for at least one-fifth of the entire U.S. economy. It is the single most important expression of America's priorities. The material in the book is a fertile source of material for the needed debate.

Description: Consensus of viewpoints from a group discussion on economic forecasting at the March meeting of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.

Description: An overview of the formation of the Committee of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, initiated by the Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Government Statistics, in response to the need for statistical advisory committees to government agencies to promote better data collection and dissemination, contracting, forms clearance, planning, coordination, monitoring, staffing, and strengthening of agency functions.

Description: This article provides a summary of the February 1967 Canadian Institute of Actuaries discussion on the 1966 amendment to the Old Age Security Act and its effects on Canada and Quebec pension plans.

Description: The SOA is shining a spotlight on its research activities as it migrates into the areas of public policy and other relevant topics.

Description: This article discusses the Society of Actuaries Foundation's first consumer education program and how it is filling a gap by providing information on Social Security.

Description: This article discusses the formation, and work in progress or under consideration, of the SOA's Committee for Research on Social Concerns to identify social concerns with actuarial aspects on which objective analysis, research and creative input could be provided.

Description: Discussion of Forecast 2000, the actuarial profession's public relations program.

Description: This article reviews proposals in the Carter Report for additional taxation on Canadian insurance companies and their policyholders.