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  1. Less Ottawa, More Province, 2021: How Decentralized Federalism is Key to Health Care Reform

    A significant body of research suggests that Canada’s health care system consistently underperforms relative to most peer jurisdictions with universal health care systems. This underperformance continues despite the fact that Canada is one of the world’s ...

  2. An Assessment of Recent Economic Performance and Business Investment Growth in Ontario

    Over the first two decades of the 21st century, Ontario has been mired in a prolonged period of slow economic growth. This bulletin provides the context for this situation by examining the extent of Ontario’s economic weakness since the turn of ...

  3. Voting with Their Feet: Migration in Atlantic Canada

    Migration is a perennial topic of interest in Atlantic Canada. Out-migration specifically has been widely recognized as both a symptom of the region’s economic weakness and a potential threat to its future well-being. Atlantic Canada experienced a ...

  4. Ford Government Fiscal Policy Approach Mirrors that of McGuinty and Wynne

    This bulletin analyzes the recent 2021 budget that Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government tabled in order to assess the extent to which it continues or changes the general fiscal policy approach of the Liberal governments of Premiers ...

  5. Measuring Ontario’s Regional Prosperity Gap

    By global standards, Ontario is a prosperous place. Ontarians enjoy living standards and access to opportunities that are the envy of much of the world. However, within its own economic region, Ontario is an economic laggard. This bulletin ...

  6. Lessons for the Ford Government from the 1995 Federal Budget

    Chronic deficits since the 2008/09 recession have weakened Ontario’s public finances. The province’s debt-to-GDP ratio—a key measure of fiscal sustainability—increased from 27.8 percent to an estimated 47.0 percent of GDP by the end of 2020/21. ...

  7. Atlantic Canada's Precarious Public Finances

    Canada’s four Atlantic provinces—Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland & Labrador—face long-term threats to fiscal sustainability. COVID-19 and the resulting economic downturn has only added to these challenges. Further, ...

  8. Lessons for Fiscal Reform from the Klein Era

    Alberta is facing serious fiscal challenges, including a historic deficit and rapid debt accumulation that extend beyond the COVID shock. This is not the first time Alberta’s finances have been in trouble. Today’s situation has parallels to the ...

  9. The Great Convergence: Measuring the Fiscal Capacity Gap Between “Have” and “Have-Not” Provinces

    Since 2007/08, the fiscal capacity gap between richer and poorer Canadian provinces has shrunk dramatically, with the trend accelerating significantly after 2014–15. Fiscal capacity refers to a province’s ability to raise own-source revenues at tax rates ...

  10. Economic Performance in Ontario CMAs: A National Comparative Perspective

    Several recent Fraser Institute studies have documented the weak economic performance in Ontario over the past 20 years outside of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and to a lesser extent Ottawa. This bulletin builds on that analysis by examining ...