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1. Increasing the Minimum Wage in Alberta: A Flawed Anti-Poverty Policy

   Main Conclusions As part of its effort to reduce poverty, Premier Rachel Notley’s government will raise Alberta’s minimum wage from $10.20 per hour, the rate when the Notley government took office three years ago, to $15 in October 2018. But, raising the ...

2. The Illusion of Alberta’s Jobs Recovery: Government vs. Private Sector Employment

   With a drop in commodity prices in 2014 and the ensuing economic downturn, Alberta’s weakened labour market has attracted considerable attention. Nonetheless, Premier Rachel Notley’s government has touted recent employment figures as a sign that ...

3. Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2018 Edition

   Labour markets are critical components of an economy. They are the mechanism through which we allocate one of our most valuable and productive resources: human work, effort, creativity, and ingenuity. Labour markets match human skills, supplied by ...

4. Comparing Municipal Government Finances in Metro Vancouver, 2018 Edition

   Municipal governments play an important role in the lives of British Columbians by providing important services and collecting taxes. But municipal finances do not receive the same degree of public scrutiny as the finances of senior governments. This can ...

5. Increasing the Minimum Wage in Ontario: A Flawed Anti-Poverty Policy

   Main Conclusions As part of its Poverty Reduction Strategy, former Premier Kathleen Wynne’s government was planning to raise the minimum wage from $11.60 in 2017 to $15 per hour by 2019. But, raising the minimum wage is not an effective way to alleviate ...

6. Increasing the Minimum Wage in British Columbia: A Flawed Anti-Poverty Policy

   Main Conclusions As part of its effort to alleviate poverty, Premier John Horgan’s government plans on raising the minimum wage from $11.35 in 2018 to $15.20 per hour by 2021, a 34% increase over three years. But, raising the minimum wage is not an ...

7. Back on Track: How the Federal Liberals Can Deliver Their Promised Balanced Budget by 2019/20

   Main Conclusions During the 2015 federal election, Justin Trudeau’s Liberals presented a fiscal plan to Canadians that proposed three years of deficit spending of no more than $10 billion annually with a return to a balanced budget by 2019/20. After ...

8. The Effect on Canadian Families of Changes to Federal Income Tax and CPP Payroll Tax

   Since coming into office, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has repeatedly claimed to have reduced taxes for middle class Canadian families—a claim based solely on the federal government’s reduction to the second lowest personal income ...

9. Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2017 Generosity Index

   Manitoba had the highest percentage of tax filers that donated to charity among the provinces (24.6%) during the 2015 tax year while New Brunswick and Quebec had the lowest (19.3%). Manitoba also donated the highest percentage of its aggregate ...

10. Measuring the Distribution of Taxes in Canada: Do the Rich Pay Their “Fair Share”?

    There is a common and mistaken impression in Canada that the country’s top earners are getting away with paying relatively little tax. This misperception has been fuelled by governments, especially the current federal government, which has invoked “tax ...