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1. Less Ottawa, More Province, 2021: How Decentralized Federalism is Key to Health Care Reform

   A significant body of research suggests that Canada’s health care system consistently underperforms relative to most peer jurisdictions with universal health care systems. This underperformance continues despite the fact that Canada is one of the world’s ...

2. Wealth tax would make Canada’s bad situation even worse

   Canada must become more attractive and competitive for business investment and entrepreneurs, and introducing a wealth tax and/or raising the capital gains tax would make a difficult situation worse. ...

3. Canada needs more paycheque writers

   Total business investment declined by 0.2 per cent per year between 2016 and 2019. ...

4. Alberta and Saskatchewan need new rules to save revenue

   Saskatchewan’s resource revenue will be roughly $360 million higher than initially projected in 2021/22. ...

5. The real election losers—balance sheet, health care, federalism

   On health-care wait times, Canada consistently ranks lowest among comparable countries with universal health care. ...

6. Both frontrunning parties muddy their spending plans

   The NDP has been the most transparent by clearly stating it would introduce a host of tax hikes. ...

7. Saskatchewan should establish new strict rules to save resource revenue

   The province's massive budget deficit continues a trend that started well before the pandemic. ...

8. Ottawa’s ballooning debt and deficits should be major campaign issue

   Canada has the fifth-highest level of total government debt among 29 industrialized countries. ...

9. Trudeau policies have hurt economic growth

   This government’s policies depart from the consensus of previous governments both Liberal and Conservative. ...

10. Trudeau rhetoric can’t change Canada’s fiscal reality

    Due to federal tax changes, 61 per cent of low-income families face higher personal income taxes. ...