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1. Submission to The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance for Canada

   Fraser Institute submission to Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance for 2007 federal budget. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/FlahertySubmission.pdf ...

2. Hospital Report Card: Ontario 2006

   The Fraser Institute's Hospital Report Card: Ontario 2006 is constructed to help patients choose the best hospital for their inpatient care by providing them with information on the performance of Ontario acute-care hospitals. https://www ...

3. Government Failure in Canada, 2005 Report: A Review of the Auditor General's Reports, 1992-2005

   This publication has been written to inform Canadians about the theories and insights of Public Choice Theory, to document government failure from the reports of the Auditor General, and, perhaps most importantly, to describe the mechanisms available to ...

4. Accounting for Gomery: The Money Links Between the Federal Government, Political Parties, and Private Interests

   The numbers of people and amounts of money involved in the Gomery inquiry are larger than previously known. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/AccountingforGomery.pdf ...

5. Buying Health Change? The 2005 Survey of High Earner Pay in Ontario's Hospitals

   Half of Ontario's $33 billion in public health care spending goes to the hospital sector and at least three-quarters of that amount is labour income. Since health spending is the largest single factor affecting provincial finances (and is expected to ...

6. Power Jolt Required: Measuring the Impact of Electricity Deregulation

   This Alert sets out to measure the price and supply impacts of deregulation in the leading reform jurisdictions around the world. Participants in electricity markets appear to be despondent. The public opinion fallout from the failed California market ...

7. Where Does the Money Go? A Study of Worker Pay in Ontario's Hospitals

   Ontario spends almost $32 billion on public sector health programs, up 60 percent in nominal terms over the past decade. And this amount, equal to 6.4 percent of the provincial economy, is set to rise even further under the McGuinty government's four ...

8. Nothing So Certain: Debt, Taxes, and Government Spending

   The 2004 Ontario budget has proven to be a watershed event. After months of floating policy trial balloons, the government has finally committed to a four-year fiscal plan. This Alert assesses the new fiscal plan in the light of the prior Progressive ...

9. Share the Wealth: Who Pays for Government Across Ontario?

   There is a great interest in Canada, and especially in Ontario recently, on the topic of cities and their fiscal standing in our federal system. For example, the federal government has developed a communities agenda, formerly the cities agenda, and has ...

10. Lemons and Peaches: Comparing Auto Insurance Across Canada

    Myths abound on the issue of public versus private auto insurance. Some people posit that public auto insurance is safer, cheaper, less discriminatory, and more generous than private insurance. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files ...