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Canada’s Fiscal Policy Has Undermined Efforts to Tackle Inflation

Canada’s Fiscal Policy Has Undermined Efforts to Tackle Inflation finds that the federal government’s decision to increase already high levels of spending and continued budget deficits will hinder the Bank of Canada’s efforts to tame inflation.

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Tackling the Surgery Backlog in the Canadian Provinces: Some Lessons from International Experience is a new study that finds unlike Canada, other countries with universal health-care systems—including Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands—have managed to reduce their medical wait-times by using the private sector to its advantage and incentivizing greater efficiency through alternative funding models.

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Economic Performance in Southwestern Ontario’s CMAs: A National Perspective 2023 Update

Economic Performance in Southwestern Ontario’s CMAs: A National Perspective, 2023 Update of the 36 metropolitan areas in Canada covered by Statistics Canada, Windsor experienced the largest drop in its ranking for median household income—having the 11th highest median household income in Canada in 2005 to having the 33rd highest median household income in 2019. Similarly, London fell from 13th to 28th place.

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Nova Scotia Premiers and Provincial Government Spending

Nova Scotia Premiers and Provincial Government Spending is a new study that reviews annual per-person program spending (inflation-adjusted) by Nova Scotia premiers from 1965 to 2021, finding that the highest single year of per-person spending on record was under Premier Robert Stanfield.

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New Brunswick Premiers and Provincial Government Spending

New Brunswick Premiers and Provincial Government Spending is a new study that reviews annual per-person program spending (inflation-adjusted) by New Brunswick premiers from 1965 to 2021, finding that the highest single year of per-person spending on record was under Premier Louis Robichaud, with a 17.3 per cent average annual change in per person spending.

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Stress Testing the Federal Fiscal Anchor

Stress Testing the Federal Fiscal Anchor finds that that there is a 30 per cent chance that the federal debt to GDP ratio will increase over a 10-year time period, meaning the federal government would fail to achieve its core fiscal goal.

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The Cost of Business Subsidies in Canada

The Cost of Business Subsides in Canada finds that from 2007 to 2019 (the latest year of available pre-COVID data), federal, provincial and local governments spent more than $350 billion on business subsidies—also known as corporate welfare.

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