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1. Canada’s health-care system fails to account for senior migration

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, November 23, 2017 The recent meeting of G-7 health ministers should provide a wake-up call for policymakers about Canada’s ailing health-care system. Compared to many of our G-7 counterparts, our system is fraught ...

2. Seniors migration cost British Columbia $7.2 billion in health-care expenses

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, November 15, 2017 Canada’s health-care system has lots of problems including its comparatively high cost, long wait times and middling performance among universal health-care countries. One problem, which has largely ...

3. The Impact of Interprovincial Migration of Seniors on Provincial Health Care Spending

   The dominant role played by government financing in Canada’s single-payer health care system has led to an oversight related to demographics: senior migration. Health care spending is skewed towards the first year of life and after retirement. The ...

4. Personal income taxes and the capital gains tax

   Numerous studies have demonstrated the high costs imposed on economies that maintain capital gains taxes, particularly those such as Canada that are relatively small and trade-oriented. The source of these costs is that capital gains ...

5. The History and Development of Canada's Personal Income Tax: Zero to 50 in 100 Years

   In recognition of the 100th anniversary of Canada’s personal income tax (PIT), the Fraser Institute asked a group of accomplished scholars to analyze and assess the emergence, development, and current state of Canada’s federal personal income tax. The ...

6. Think-tanker ascends to minister of finance

   Appeared in the National Newswatch, November 23, 2015 Earlier this month, Bill Morneau, the former chair of the C.D. Howe Institute, was appointed Canada’s minister of finance. In the coming months, Morneau will be tasked with one of the government’s most ...

7. Key policy areas for the new finance minister: Part 2—top tax rate

   The appointment of Bill Morneau as minister of finance is particularly interesting because of his involvement in the world of public policy think-tanks. In recent years, the Fraser Institute and the C.D. Howe Institute (where Mr. Morneau ...

8. Lessons for the Liberals from Obama and economic growth

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, November 13, 2015 There are clear parallels between the campaigns and governing approaches of President Obama and the Trudeau Liberals. These range from the superficial (similar campaign slogans) to substantive –similar focus ...

9. Top three economic issues Canada’s federal leaders should address

   Heading into the debate, here are the top three economic issues Canada’s federal leaders should address: 1. The burden we are unduly placing on the next generation Since the 2008 recession, Canada has witnessed the return of consistent ...

10. Reforming Federal Personal Income Taxes: A Pro-Growth Plan for Canada

    After seven years of consecutive budgetary deficits, the federal government appears poised to balance its budget in 2015 and has signalled that its top, post-deficit priority is “examining ways to provide further tax relief for Canadians.” Reductions in ...