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1. Quebec’s Tax Competitiveness: A Barrier to Prosperity

   Empirical research and history provide evidence that high marginal tax rates and uncompetitive tax policies can hurt a jurisdiction’s economic performance. This is because individuals and businesses respond by working, saving, and investing less, and by ...

2. The Cost of Government Debt in Canada

   A major theme of this year’s federal and various provincial budgets is continuing deficit spending and growing government debt. The result of recent deficits and debt accumulation is that the combined federal and provincial net debt has increased from ...

3. Cost to Canadians of Complying with Personal Income Taxes, 2014

   This study builds on previous Fraser Institute research estimating the total compliance costs associated with Canada's tax system. It aims to estimate the cost of complying with the personal income tax system in 2012. It updates past estimates for ...

4. Comparing the Debt Burdens of Ontario and California

   To many in the United States and Canada, California represents the epitome of irresponsible government spending coupled with poor cash management. However, the province of Ontario is carrying a much worse debt burden than the state of California. This ...

5. Quebec's Government Indebtedness- Unnoticed, Uncontrolled

   Quebec is Canada’s most indebted province. It currently has the largest government debt of any Canadian province when measured relative to the size of its economy (GDP). This dubious distinction and its implications for the Quebec economy, the government, ...

6. Post-Stimulus Spending Trends in Canada

   Canadian governments enacted Keynesian-inspired fiscal stimulus plans in 2009. These plans were to be a temporary response to the global economic recession. The stimulus spending was to be withdrawn after two years and program spending was then to be ...

7. Policy reforms in Australia and what they mean for Canada

   Canada and Australia share many common cultural, economic, governmental, political, and socio-economic characteristics, yet few researchers have carried out comparative analyses of their public policy experiences. These two papers— the first by Stephen ...