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1. Canadian Student Review: Summer 2021

   In this issue: Modern Monetary Theory and the COVID Crisis Student contributor Brennan Sorge explains how Canada’s pandemic response should be a warning against the use of Modern Monetary Theory. Video Gallery This video from the Essential James Buchanan ...

2. De-Amalgamation in Canada: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

   Although nearly every province in Canada has pursued some form of local restructuring over the past 25 years, municipal amalgamation remains a controversial subject. A vast amount of research has found that consolidation fails to produce promised cost ...

3. Income Inequality Measurement Sensitivities

   This study measures both the current state of income inequality and its change over time (since 1982), paying particular attention to how different definitions of income and the choice of economic unit (individuals or families) influence the results. ...

4. An Analysis of Public and Private Sector Employment Trends in Canada, 1990- 2013

   This paper examines the evolution of public and private sector employment at both the national and provincial levels. While the public sector share of employment in Canada declined during the 1990s, its growth resumed dur¬ing the first decade of the 21st ...

5. Fiscal Policy Lessons for Alberta's New Government from other NDP Governments

   Rachel Notley’s New Democratic government in Alberta takes office facing significant fiscal and economic challenges. The fiscal policy choices the new government makes will play an important role in shaping the future fiscal health and economic prospects ...

6. Ontario vs. the US “Rust Belt”: Coping with a Changing Economic World

   Since the recession, Ontario has recorded large and consistent budget deficits that have increased the province’s already enormous debt load. According to a prominent narrative at Queen’s Park, policymakers are not to blame for this fiscal trend because ...

7. New Homes and Red Tape: Residential Land-Use Regulation in Alberta’s Calgary-Edmonton Corridor

   As an increasing number of Canadians move to major cities, housing prices have continued to rise. Understanding how public policy affects the supply of new homes is critical. The Fraser Institute’s survey of housing developers and homebuilders assesses ...

8. Compulsory Government Pensions vs. Private Savings: The Effect of Previous Expansion to the Canada Pension Plan

   In recent years, there has been a strong push to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). Ontario has already set out a plan to create an additional mandatory provincial program mirroring the CPP called the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP), which is ...

9. New Homes and Red Tape: Residential Land-Use Regulation in BC’s Lower Mainland

   As an increasing number of Canadians move to major cities, housing prices have continued to rise. Understanding how public policy affects the supply of new homes is critical. Following several major studies in the United States on this topic, the Fraser ...

10. Municipal Amalgamation in Ontario

    The 1990s and 2000s were tumultuous decades for Ontario municipalities. Hundreds of municipalities across the provinces were amalgamated amid claims that restructuring would produce local governments that would be more efficient and less costly. Taxpayers ...