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1. Average workers will ultimately pay for Horgan government's new payroll tax

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, August 8, 2018 In a recent news release, B.C. Finance Minister Carole James called Medical Services Plan (MSP) premiums “unfair” and argued her government’s new replacement Employer Health Tax (EHT) is a “much fairer and ...

2. Financial Markets, Laws, and Entrepreneurship

   Financial Markets, Laws, and Entrepreneurship, a chapter in the recently released book Demographics and Entrepreneurship: Mitigating the Effects of an Aging Population, finds that the preferential tax rate for small businesses does not encourage ...

3. Demographics and Entrepreneurship blog series: Spurring entrepreneurship through capital gains tax reform

   As part of the blog series summarizing the Fraser Institute’s Demographics and Entrepreneurship essays, this post examines the effect of capital gains tax reform on entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is critical for economies to grow, ...

4. CPP expansion will shrink available pool of investment capital in Canada

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, May 7, 2018 Canada has a growing investment problem. Business investment (excluding residential structures—houses, condos, etc.) has dropped nearly 20 per cent since 2014, and the level of business investment (as a ...

5. Expansion of the Canada Pension Plan and the Unintended Effect on Domestic Investment

   Beginning in 2019, mandatory contributions by Canadian workers to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) will increase, step by step, over seven years. While the expansion of the CPP may be well intentioned, it will result in several unintended consequences. One ...

6. Government policies deterring investment in Canada

   Kinder Morgan’s announcement that it will halt “all non-essential activities and related spending on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project” could prove disastrous to Canada for many reasons. If the $7.4 billion Edmonton-Burnaby pipeline ...

7. Understanding the significance of the Kinder Morgan decision to suspend the Trans Mountain pipeline

   The decision by Kinder Morgan to suspend all non-essential spending on its Trans Mountain pipeline despite regulatory approval is yet another sign of the significant problems in Canada’s energy sector and indeed our broader economy. Fraser Institute ...

8. Towards a Better Understanding of Income Inequality in Canada

   In recent years, income inequality has become one of the most animating—and unfortunately most misunderstood—economic and social issues of our time. Sparked by the 2008-09 recession, the well-deserved backlash against corporate bailouts, the Occupy Wall ...

9. NDP-Green carbon tax hikes likely won’t be revenue neutral

   Given the recent agreement between NDP and Green Party, which may soon see the two parties form a coalition government in British Columbia, changes are likely coming to B.C.’s carbon tax. The tax may increase by $5 per tonne each year ...

10. Memo to Elizabeth May—B.C.’s carbon tax was not revenue neutral

    Yesterday in the House of Commons, our recent study documenting how B.C.’s carbon tax was and is not actually revenue neutral, received considerable attention. Unfortunately, some of the statements made by members of parliament ...