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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Fiscal Consequences of Higher Spending on K-12 Public Schools in Canada

    Spending decisions by governments have consequences beyond just the direct effects of the new or expanded spending. Additional spending today requires either higher taxes today or, when financed by deficits (i.e., borrowing), higher taxes in the ...

  4. The Myth of Middle-Class Stagnation in Canada

      A frequently heard complaint is that for the past several decades middle-class workers and families in Canada have stagnated economically. A typical rendition of this claim appears in the 2016 federal budget from the Department of Finance in Ottawa: ...

  5. Rates of return for expanded CPP remain meagre

    Last month, Canada’s finance ministers announced an “agreement in principle” to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), which will require workers to pay more into the program starting in 2019 in exchange for higher CPP retirement benefits ...

  6. Rates of return for expanded CPP remain meagre

    Last month, Canada’s finance ministers announced an “agreement in principle” to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), which will require workers to pay more into the program starting in 2019 in exchange for higher CPP retirement benefits in the future. As ...

  7. Comparing Municipal Government Finances in Metro Vancouver

    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 more senior governments. This can pose a ...