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  1. Ontario government has made COVID economic pain even worse

    The Greenbelt Act helped drive up residential housing prices in the Greater Toronto Area. ...

  2. Southwestern Ontario lagging behind in job creation, income growth

    Over the past 20 years, while Ontario’s two biggest cities (Toronto and Ottawa) have enjoyed relative prosperity, large and populous parts of the province have suffered significant economic pain. In fact, a recent study showed that ...

  3. Economic Performance in Ontario CMAs: A National Comparative Perspective

    Several recent Fraser Institute studies have documented the weak economic performance in Ontario over the past 20 years outside of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and to a lesser extent Ottawa. This bulletin builds on that analysis by examining ...

  4. Another recession means more hardship in areas of Ontario that struggled in recent years

    It’s no secret that Ontario has gone through more than its share of economic pain in recent years. Thanks to weak economic and fiscal performance, we characterized the period from 2007-2016 as a “lost decade” for the provincial economy. ...

  5. Ontario needs growth and prosperity in all regions—not just two big ones

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, November 27, 2019 Last week the Fraser Institute published a study on the economic performance of Atlantic Canada, which found that economic production (on a per-person basis) in the region was only 83.5 per cent of the average ...

  6. Ontario should learn from Michigan reforms

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, October 2, 2019 Ontario has experienced its share of economic hardship over the past 15 years, with generally weak economic growth, sluggish job creation in most parts of the province, and a ballooning government debt. The ...

  7. Ontario employment gains—an uneven picture

    According to the most recent Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey, Ontario saw an increase of 58,000 jobs in August. But the evidence suggests that all’s not coming up roses after one looks at the longer-term picture across Ontario’s ...