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1. Trudeau government’s new housing benefit seems to ignore regional differences

   As part of its National Housing Strategy, the Trudeau government announced today that it will directly subsidize low-income households with an average of $2,500 annually for housing costs. Details are pending, but the logic is simple: if ...

2. Canada’s federal deficits would be much worse without Alberta

   The prevailing narrative surrounding the post-2008 recovery in Canada is that the country weathered the storm significantly better than the United States, and has emerged in relatively strong fiscal shape (though certainly not unscathed) ...

3. White House urges deregulation to boost housing supply—Canadian policymakers should take note

   Housing availability and affordability isn’t just an issue in Canada. It’s also a concern in the United States, where the White House recently released a so-called Housing Development Toolkit aimed at informing municipalities on how to ...

4. Provincial health ministers hope to pass the buck to Ottawa

   Provincial health ministers are calling on the federal government to return to the unsustainable rate of increases (six per cent per year) in the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) that typified the last decade. This plea comes despite the ...

5. Minister Philpott should stand firm on federal health transfers

   As we head deeper into the fall, and Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott’s self-imposed year-end deadline to negotiate a new health accord with the provinces approaches, the chorus of provincial health ministers begging for more money ...

6. Look to 1990s welfare reform to help fix Canada’s health-care system

   The Liberal government in the mid-1990s under Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Finance Minister Paul Martin is remembered for slaying a massive budget deficit that threatened Canada’s financial future. The 1995 budget was a watershed ...

7. Canadian health-care fix—innovation, not more money

   Researchers have long noted that while Canada ranks among the most expensive universal health-care systems in the developed world, it has fewer medical resources (physicians, beds, diagnostic scanners) on average, a mixed track record on ...

8. Federal government touts Chinese investment while B.C. government discourages it

   Canada’s federal government recently announced that it’s embarking on a campaign to increase investment and migration from China. In particular, Immigration Minister John McCallum (pictured above) said that the government wishes to ...

9. Federal stimulus spending a futile response to Alberta’s economic challenges

   The federal government will launch an economic stimulus program with initial efforts focused on Alberta and Saskatchewan, two provinces hit hard by the recent fall in oil prices. Specifically, the government is considering quickly ...