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1. Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index 2020 edition

   The Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2019. Including all types of taxes, that bill has increased by 2,226% since 1961. Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single ...

2. Year of the Wealth Tax?

   Senator Elizabeth Warren remains a top contender in the Democratic presidential nomination race. ...

3. Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index, 2019 edition

   The Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2018. Including all types of taxes, that bill has increased by 2,246% since 1961. Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single ...

4. The average Canadian family spends more than $37,000 per year on taxes

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 14, 2018 Have you ever wondered what the most expensive annual budget item is for the average Canadian family? If housing is the first thing that comes to mind, then you’d be surprised to find out you’re wrong. In ...

5. Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index, 2018 Edition

   The Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2017. Including all types of taxes, that bill has increased by 2,112% since 1961. Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single ...

6. Taxes—the average Canadian family’s largest expense

   Appeared in the Financial Post, August 24, 2017 With home prices rising across the country, many of us would likely assume that housing costs (including rent and mortgage payments) are the most expensive budget item for the average Canadian family. In ...

7. Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index, 2017 Edition

   The Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2016. Including all types of taxes, that bill has increased by 2,006% since 1961. Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single ...

8. Taxation among First Nations would encourage greater accountability and good governance

   Appeared in the Regina Leader-Post, May 5, 2017 The Cree Nation government in the James Bay region of Quebec recently approved a draft Cree constitution and governance agreement that—among other items—would give the Cree the power to collect taxes. In an ...

9. Canadians spend billions complying with complex personal income tax system

   Appeared in the Financial Post, April 27, 2017 With the tax-filing deadline just around the corner, it’s worth reflecting on how much the personal income tax (PIT) has changed since it was first introduced 100 years ago. For example, Ottawa now collects ...

10. Spreading the Economic Freedom Message

    Appeared in Fraser Insight, January 2017 Economic freedom is one of the main drivers of prosperity, as the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America index (EFNA) has illustrated—and hundreds of independent studies have confirmed. For a dozen ...