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1. Wealth tax wouldn’t work the way Ottawa wants

   According to the PBO, governments could raise up to $61 billion with a wealth tax on Canadians worth more than $10 million. ...

2. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on May 24, 2021

   In 2021, the average Canadian family will earn $124,659 in income and pay an estimated $48,757 in total taxes (39.1%). If the average Canadian family had to pay its taxes up front, it would have worked until May 23 to pay the total tax bill imposed on it ...

3. Illustrating the Tax Implications of a Guaranteed Annual Income

   Policymakers and the general public have paid increasing attention to the notion of introducing a GAI program in Canada. A guaranteed annual income (GAI) is a cash transfer paid by the government to individuals or households to ensure a minimum ...

4. Trudeau government plan would have undermined Opposition ability to hold government to account

   Numerous media outlets including the National Post reported Monday that the Trudeau government planned to introduce a bill in the House of Commons that gave sweeping powers to the finance minister to unilaterally impose taxes and spend ...

5. Memo to Prime Minister Trudeau—you increased the tax burden on Canadian families

   Appeared in the Moncton Times & Transcript, June 25, 2019 Providing tax relief for Canadian families has been a stated priority for the Trudeau government since it assumed office. However, despite any rhetoric to the contrary, the tax burden for the ...

6. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 14, 2019

   In 2019, the average Canadian family will earn $117,731 in income and pay an estimated $52,675 in total taxes (44.7%). If the average Canadian family had to pay its taxes up front, it would have worked until June 13 to pay the $52,675 total tax ...

7. Provincial finances in trouble—spotlight Central Canada

   The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) recently published its annual fiscal sustainability report, which provides long-term projections to assess the sustainability of public finances for the federal government and the provinces. In this ...

8. Canada has lost its competitive advantage over the U.S.

   Say you are a store owner and your competitor across the street offers everything at lower price and higher quality, well, you’re in trouble. If your competitor was far on the other side of the city, things might be a bit better. But ...

9. Will the CAI solve our climate-policy problem and end eco-micro-management?

   The CAI. Not the CIA, which may or may not be working on our climate-policy problem, who knows? It works on lots of things so it may be working on that, too. Rather, the CAI is the Trudeau government’s new “Climate Action Incentive,” ...

10. Provincial finances in trouble—spotlight Atlantic Canada

    The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) recently published its annual fiscal sustainability report, which provides long-term projections to assess the sustainability of public finances for the federal government and the provinces. In this ...