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1. 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 ...

2. Bringing government employee compensation in line with private-sector norms key for B.C. budget

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, June 25, 2018 During last year’s election campaign, and in his first full budget as premier, John Horgan (pictured above) promised to balance British Columbia’s operating budget. If his NDP government remains committed to ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

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. Measuring the Impact of Federal Personal Income Tax Changes on Middle Income Canadian Families

   Select your family type: Select your family's income range: Select your family's income range:   During the 2015 federal election campaign, the Liberals pledged to cut income taxes on Canada’s middle class. Since coming into office, the ...

8. Hiking capital gains taxes—bad for the economy and Canada’s middle class

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, March 21, 2017 In the lead up to today’s federal budget there have been on-going rumours that the federal government will raise capital gains taxes. Despite misperceptions that hiking capital gains taxes will only affect ...

9. Tax relief in B.C. budget misses ‘pro-growth’ mark

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, February 25, 2017 When touting the tax cuts in B.C.’s 2017 budget this week, Finance Minister Michael de Jong (pictured above) said the cuts will leave money “in the pockets of British Columbians to let them make the choices ...

10. B.C. Federation of Labour president misses the point of comparing government and private-sector pay

    In a letter to the editor published by the Vancouver Sun, B.C. Federation of Labour president Irene Lanzinger interprets a recent Fraser Institute study as demonstrating the benefits of joining a union. This misses the main point of our ...