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1. Poor policies largely drive Ontario’s lagging labour market performance

   This second post on Ontario’s lack of prosperity focuses on unemployment in the province, a key measure of the performance of the labour market. Recall that the first post illustrated the poor economic growth recorded in the province vis ...

2. Poor policy responsible for Ontario’s dwindling share of Canadian economy

   The Institute recently released a major study by former chief analyst at Statistics Canada, Philip Cross, assessing the state of Ontario within Canada. The results are startling in terms of the economic decline of one of Canada’s ...

3. Ontario Pension Plan based on faulty assumptions

   Appeared in the National Post The Ontario government's proposal to supplement the Canada Pension Plan with its own compulsory pension plan is based on a series of faulty assumptions. A fundamental but unproven assumption is that people are not saving ...

4. Evaluating the Proposed Ontario Pension Plan

   The Ontario government has proposed its own supplement to the CPP in an attempt to force more saving. In reality, Ontarians typically have an above-average saving rate, double that of the rest of Canada as recently as 2009. Saving in Ontario returned to ...

5. The Reality of Retirement Income in Canada

   Building on the three pillars of Canada?s pension system, the current retirement income system serves the vast majority of Canadians very well. The problem of poverty among the elderly, which drove many of the reforms in the 1970s and 1980s, has largely ...