Joel Emes is a Senior Analyst with the BC Progress Board. From 1996 - 2002, he was senior research economist at The Fraser Institute, where he was the primary researcher for Tax Freedom Day and the Institute's Provincial and State-Provincial fiscal comparisons, the Budget Performance Index, and the Fiscal Performance Index. He was also a regular contributor to the Fraser Institute's monthly magazine, Fraser Forum. He was co-author of Tax Facts 10, 11, and 12, and Canada's All Government Debt (1996, 1998, and 1999 editions). His articles have appeared in the National Post, the Globe and Mail, the Calgary Herald, the Vancouver Sun and the London Free Press. He received his M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University in 1995.