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1. Health Care Reform Options for Alberta

   Canada is widely acknowledged to be a comparatively high spender among countries with universal health care but achieves only a modest to average rating on measures of performance. Within Canada, Alberta is a relatively high spender with modest results. ...

2. Assessing British Columbia's Tax Competitiveness

   British Columbia faces significant tax competitiveness issues, particularly with respect to the tax treatment of businesses in the province. The province’s sales tax system—unlike that of many of its competitors—taxes a wide range of business inputs. ...

3. Reforming Capital Gains Taxes in Alberta

   Capital gains taxes impose comparatively large costs on the economy by discouraging needed activities such as entrepreneurship, investment, and savings. A number of industrialized countries such as Switzerland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and ...

4. The Impact of Proportional Representation on British Columbia’s Legislature and Voters

   In November 2018 British Columbia will be holding a referendum on changing the province’s electoral system to a form of proportional representation (PR). Proponents advocating for the change to a PR electoral system argue that the current system is unfair ...

5. Financial Markets, Laws, and Entrepreneurship

   Financial Markets, Laws, and Entrepreneurship, a chapter in the recently released book Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the Effects of an Aging Population, finds that the preferential tax rate for small businesses does not encourage ...

6. Expansion of the Canada Pension Plan and the Unintended Effect on Domestic Investment

   Beginning in 2019, mandatory contributions by Canadian workers to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) will increase, step by step, over seven years. While the expansion of the CPP may be well intentioned, it will result in several unintended consequences. One ...

7. Understanding the significance of the Kinder Morgan decision to suspend the Trans Mountain pipeline

   The decision by Kinder Morgan to suspend all non-essential spending on its Trans Mountain pipeline despite regulatory approval is yet another sign of the significant problems in Canada’s energy sector and indeed our broader economy. Fraser Institute ...

8. Towards a Better Understanding of Income Inequality in Canada

   In recent years, income inequality has become one of the most animating—and unfortunately most misunderstood—economic and social issues of our time. Sparked by the 2008-09 recession, the well-deserved backlash against corporate bailouts, the Occupy Wall ...

9. Bending the Curve: Recent Developments in Government Spending on First Nations

   How much money are governments spending on Indigenous peoples? How have these amounts been changing over time? How effective is the spending? This is the third in a series of Fraser Institute studies of these questions. This paper extends the previous ...

10. Canada’s Aging Population and Implications for Government Finances

    Despite broad public awareness that our society is aging, very little has been done by governments across the country to prepare for the marked aging that has already begun. This study examines the fiscal pressures, specifically the demand for greater ...