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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Memo to Doug Ford—Ontario desperately needs personal income tax reform

   Due to last week’s election victory, Doug Ford is Ontario’s premier-designate. However, now comes the difficult task of governing. While there’s no shortage of pressing policy issues for the province, tax relief should be top of mind ...

6. Ontario budget ignores past promises, offers no plan to enhance economic competitiveness

   Predictably, many of the headlines on Ontario’s 2018 budget, released today, focus on Premier Kathleen Wynne’s so-called “free” child care plan and other big-spending items. It is, after all, a big-spending budget. But crucially, the ...

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

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

8. Canada’s Past Fiscal Leaders Are Now Fiscal Laggards: An Analysis of 2017 Provincial Budgets

   Around the turn of the 21st century, Alberta and Ontario could both boast of having comparatively sound public finances relative to most other provinces. In recent years, however, serious fiscal problems have emerged in both provinces. Alberta and Ontario ...

9. Obstacles to business investment in Ontario—uncompetitive tax rates

   A recent study from the Fraser Institute highlights a substantial problem for Ontario’s economy—the fact that business investment to the province remains weak. In fact, business investment still hasn’t recovered to pre-recession levels. ...

10. If the Leafs and Raptors lose, you should blame… the government?

    It’s well known that high personal income tax rates discourage work, entrepreneurship, investment and other activities that contribute to economic growth. It’s also well-established that high marginal income tax rates can make it harder ...