In July 2007, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published articles by Irfan Dhalla and François Béland denying that the growth of government health expenditures in Canada is unsustainable. Methodological and conceptual errors in their articles produced invalid analyses and grossly misleading conclusions about the sustainability of government health spending under the Medicare policy model.

The shootings at Montreal's Dawson College in September 2006 reignited the controversy over the firearms registry. This paper is a timely effort to evaluate the effectiveness of the 1995 firearm legislation. In 1995, the government assumed that, by controlling the availability of firearms, the registry would reduce total criminal violence, not just gun violence, suicide and domestic abuse.

It is nearly impossible for an ordinary Canadian to have a clear idea how much tax they really pay. Most Canadians would have little difficulty determining how much income tax they pay.