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1. Alberta should look to France, Germany and Australia to improve its health-care system

   The office of the auditor general of Alberta recently delivered a report on the province’s expensive but underperforming health-care system. During an interview, the auditor general (Merwan Saher) rhetorically asked reporters “You are ...

2. Upper-earners in Canada already pay a disproportionate share of taxes

   Fresh off his Christmas vacation on a private island in the Bahamas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau embarked on a cross country tour, signalling that there may be further tax hikes on “wealthy” Canadians in the upcoming federal budget. In ...

3. Mo money, mo health-care problems

   The classic song “Mo Money Mo Problems” by late rapper Notorious B.I.G. is a fitting way to describe the current state of federal health transfers from Ottawa to the provinces. As federal transfers have grown over the past decade, Canada ...

4. Fiscal update—feds five-year cumulative deficit $32 billion higher than initially planned

   In the spring of this year, the federal Liberals released their first budget, which centred on big increases in government spending, persistent deficits, growing debt and higher taxes. At the time, we warned that a fundamental problem ...

5. Canada’s uncompetitive personal income taxes deserve more attention

   Conservative leadership hopeful Maxime Bernier today proposed a major plan to reform federal personal income taxes. It’s positive to see this issue appear on the policy agenda. Canada’s uncompetitive personal income tax system is too ...

6. Facts should defuse 'fair share’ rhetoric on taxes

   There’s a lot of talk right now in the U.S. presidential race about the wealthy not paying their “fair share” of taxes. There are similar concerns in Canada. Although the term “fair share” is rarely defined, clearly some Canadians ...

7. Minister Philpott should stand firm on federal health transfers

   As we head deeper into the fall, and Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott’s self-imposed year-end deadline to negotiate a new health accord with the provinces approaches, the chorus of provincial health ministers begging for more money ...

8. Look to 1990s welfare reform to help fix Canada’s health-care system

   The Liberal government in the mid-1990s under Prime Minister Jean Chretien and Finance Minister Paul Martin is remembered for slaying a massive budget deficit that threatened Canada’s financial future. The 1995 budget was a watershed ...

9. Canada’s high level of economic freedom at risk

   Economic freedom, the ability of individuals and families to make their own economic decisions free of interference from overly ambitious government or crony capitalists—is a core “Canadian value.” Canada ranks fifth in the world in this ...

10. Canadian health-care fix—innovation, not more money

    Researchers have long noted that while Canada ranks among the most expensive universal health-care systems in the developed world, it has fewer medical resources (physicians, beds, diagnostic scanners) on average, a mixed track record on ...