Government Spending

Educational Attainment, Migration, and Provincial Spending on Universities in Canada is a new study that finds higher university subsidies do not necessarily result in a more educated population, finding that interprovincial migration seems to be a more important factor, as it allows university students educated and paid for in one province to move to another after graduation, effectively transferring the provincial investment with them.

Missed Opportunity: Federal Spending Increases Prevent Real Tax Relief for Canadians is a new study that finds had the federal government self-imposed some meaningful spending restraint since 2015/16, it could have provided $18.7 billion of tax relief to Canadians while running a surplus of $4.6 billion this year (2023/24).