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  1. The high cost of getting climate policy wrong

    The Internet is abuzz over a recent report by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) that shines some light on the potential impact of the federal carbon tax plan on Canada’s economy. Specifically, the report shows that the carbon price ...

  2. Workers will ultimately pay part of B.C.’s new employer health tax

    Last week, British Columbia’s provincial government announced the elimination of Medical Services Premiums (MSP) premiums by 2020. And introduced a new payroll tax—the employer health tax (EHT), to be implemented a year earlier. Does ...

  3. U.S. invites new oil and gas investment while Canada lags behind

    Last week, America’s oil and gas sector received good news on the investment front. Pembina Pipeline Corp’s CEO Mick Dilger said that the next “game-changing” project could be in the United States, not Canada. He’s referring to the ...

  4. Workers, not businesses, will ultimately pay B.C.’s new payroll health tax

    A key policy announcement in B.C.’s 2018 budget is the elimination of Medical Services Premiums (MSP) in 2020 and introduction of a new payroll tax—the employer health tax (EHT). Some claim this tax swap will lift the financial burden ...

  5. B.C. throne speech latest hint that government set to abandon fiscal prudence

    Premier John Horgan’s NDP government campaigned on balanced budgets. ...

  6. GST revenues from carbon-pricing—likely another tax grab

    This week, as Canadians were sliding into their holiday mindset, the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released a report estimating the GST revenues collected by the federal government through existing carbon-pricing schemes in four ...

  7. The key fiscal lesson of Canada’s first 150 years—spend prudently

    As 2017 draws to a close, Canadians can reflect not only on the outcomes of the last year, but in this milestone 150th year of the federation, also where we are headed. What shall Canada’s economic achievements be as the next 50 years ...

  8. Carbon tax advocates flip-flop on revenue neutrality

    For many years, advocates of carbon taxes have acknowledged the necessity of “revenue neutrality” as a means of mitigating the economic damages such tax measures cause to households and the economy. In normal economic parlance, “revenue ...

  9. Economists Olewiler and Kesselman get the economics wrong on B.C.’s carbon tax

    In recent Vancouver Sun column, Simon Fraser University economists Nancy Olewiler and Rhys Kesselman dispute an earlier column by three Fraser Institute economists (Kenneth Green, Elmira Aliakbari and Ashley Stedman), which criticized ...

  10. B.C.’s NDP government will likely raise taxes and increase government spending

    Yesterday, British Columbians finally found out who will govern the province. The NDP, led by John Horgan (pictured above) and supported by the Green Party, was given an opportunity by B.C.’s lieutenant-governor to form government. Which ...