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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. Time to rethink minimum wage as an anti-poverty tool in Ontario

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, June 20, 2018 Former Prime Minister Kim Campbell once famously quipped that “an election is no time to discuss serious issues.” Unfortunately, this is often true, as exemplified by the lack of meaningful debate on minimum wage ...

3. 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 ...

4. Help the working poor with targeted benefits, not misguided minimum wage hikes

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail, March 21, 2018 Everyone wants to help the working poor. Unfortunately, governments across the country (including Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia) are going about it the wrong way by committing to raise the minimum ...

5. Trudeau government tax policies hurting families striving to join middle class

   Increased government transfers make families more reliant on government. ...

6. Effect of Federal Income Tax Changes on Canadian Families Who Are in the Bottom 20 Percent of Earners

   Since coming into office in 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has made several major changes to the federal personal income tax system. This report examines how those tax changes affect Canadian families with children, focusing ...

7. Premier Wynne gets the facts wrong about minimum wage earners in Ontario

   When the Ontario government announced its plan to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour last month, Premier Kathleen Wynne made a glaringly false statement about the reality of minimum wage earners. Specifically, she said: “Millions of ...

8. Raising minimum wage the wrong policy to help the working poor

   During a recent debate about the minimum wage, Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Federation of Labour, made several false statements that fly in the face of the available evidence, so we thought it was important to clarify the record. ...