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  1. Does the Canada Child Benefit Actually Reduce Child Poverty?

    This essay in the ongoing series on the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) focuses on empirically testing the federal government’s claim that the CCB has dramatically reduced child poverty. The principal analysis in this essay relies on Statistics Canada’s SPSD/M ...

  2. The Distribution of the Canada Child Benefit by Family Type and Income Level

    This essay examines the distribution of the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) by family type and by income level. It also compares the value of the average benefit and total spending on child benefits between the previous system of child benefits—the ...

  3. Is the Canada Child Benefit Targeted to those Most in Need?

    This essay assesses the federal government’s multiple claims that the Canada Child Benefit (CCB) is targeted to those who need it most. Any program providing benefits to 90 percent or so of families will struggle to be targeted to only those in need. Of ...

  4. A Critical Assessment of Canada’s Official Poverty Line

    In November 2018 the Liberal government selected an existing low-income indicator as Canada’s first official measure of poverty. The government chose this indicator, the Market Basket Measure (MBM), to play a key role in the government’s new Poverty ...

  5. Anti-poverty formula—high school diploma, fulltime job, no kids outside wedlock

    Appeared in the Vancouver Province, April 12, 2019 Given the importance of poverty to Canadian public policy, it’s surprising there’s almost no published research (in Canada) about the causes of poverty. Perhaps politicians and policymakers think that ...

  6. The Causes of Poverty

    This paper is an inquiry into the causes of poverty. By poverty we mean a circumstance of serious deprivation where a person lacks one or more basic need—as opposed to a condition of inequality. The question we wish to try to answer is this: Why do some ...

  7. Wealth inequality in Canada—why worry?

    Between 80 per cent and 87 per cent of Canadian wealth inequality is due to the life-cycle effect. ...

  8. Poverty really isn't that hard to measure

    Appeared in the Financial Post, June 13, 2018 Does Canada need a new measure of poverty? That’s what Michael Wolfson, member of the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics at the University of Ottawa, recently argued. According to Wolfson, poverty (in ...

  9. 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 ...

  10. Age explains most wealth inequality in Canada

    Appeared in 24 Hours Vancouver, April 25, 2017 The fact that the top 20 per cent of households in Canada hold 67 per cent of the personal wealth and the bottom 20 per cent hold no wealth at all seems, on the surface, to be a very inequitable and unfair ...