Fraser Forum

Government Spending & Taxes

9:45AM
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Canada’s premiers are meeting in Whitehorse, Yukon this week and health-care transfers from Ottawa may be high on the agenda.


1:50PM
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Almost half of all independent schools in Ontario have a religious orientation.

10:17AM
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Most Canadians are adequately prepared for retirement, making CPP expansion largely unnecessary.


1:30AM
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The returns of the CPP's investment arm in no way influence the CPP retirement benefits received by Canadian workers.


3:28PM
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The rate of return under the current CPP system is 2.1 per cent for Canadians born after 1971.


12:42PM
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Alberta's overall net financial assets deteriorated by $9.2 billion last year.


3:00AM
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The Ryan plan could incentivize high-income Canadians to relocate to the United States.


3:00AM
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Labour dispute notwithstanding, if fax is on its way out, post may already be gone.

3:09PM
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Already, Montreal taxpayers see 13 per cent of their city’s operating budget go to fund pensions.


11:21AM
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In 2014, savings in non-pension assets totalled $9.5 trillion, dwarfing the $3.3 trillion assets in the formal pension system.


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