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1. Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste: How’s Canada Doing?

   Solid waste affects people’s health and the environment surrounding them. Poorly managed solid waste accumulates in local bodies of water, oceans, and forests, degrading our ecosystems and negatively impacting human health. Therefore, appropriate ...

2. Estimated Impacts of a $170 Carbon Tax in Canada

   The federal government’s Healthy Environment and Healthy Economy (HEHE) plan includes a $170-per-tonne carbon tax to be phased in over 9 years. Unlike previous cases when the government proposed major policy changes, it has not released any quantitative ...

3. Annual Survey of Mining Companies, 2020

   This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2020 annual survey of mining and exploration companies. The survey is an attempt to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulatory uncertainty affect ...

4. Canada-US Energy Sector Competitiveness Survey 2020

   This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2020 Canada–US Energy Sector Competitiveness Survey regarding barriers to investment in oil and gas exploration and production facilities in each country. The survey responses have been tallied to ...

5. Carbon Pricing in High-Income OECD Countries

   Most economists consider human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions an unintended negative externality of production and consumption. A negative externality occurs when the effects of producing or consuming goods and services impose costs on a third party ...

6. Stimulating Economic Growth through Abundant Energy

   Main Conclusions The economic downturn from COVID-19 is proving to be one of the steepest since the Great Depression of the 1930s and Canada is already experiencing negative economic impacts. Canada’s economy experienced a decline of 2.1% in the first ...

7. Environmental Ranking for Canada and the OECD, 2nd Edition

   Canadians care about the state of their environment. Over the past few years, several reports have presented Canada as an environmental laggard, ranking it near the bottom of the list of OECD countries. As noted in the previous edition of this report, we ...

8. Annual Survey of Mining Companies, 2019

   This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2019 annual survey of mining and exploration companies. The survey is an attempt to assess how mineral endowments and public policy factors such as taxation and regulatory uncertainty affect ...

9. Canada-US Energy Sector Competitiveness Survey 2019

   This report presents the results of the Fraser Institute’s 2019 Canada-US Energy Sector Competitiveness Survey regarding barriers to investment in oil and gas exploration and production facilities in each of the two countries. The survey responses have ...

10. The Ontario Government’s Electricity Policies 2018–2019: How They Are Failing and How to Fix Them

    Policy makers in Ontario have made poor policy decisions in recent years, resulting in rising electricity costs in the province. Ontario’s rising electricity costs have been, in part, blamed on the province ‘s 2009 Green Energy Act (GEA). The centerpiece ...