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1. Health Care Reform Options for Alberta

   Canada is widely acknowledged to be a comparatively high spender among countries with universal health care but achieves only a modest to average rating on measures of performance. Within Canada, Alberta is a relatively high spender with modest results. ...

2. Reforming Capital Gains Taxes in Alberta

   Capital gains taxes impose comparatively large costs on the economy by discouraging needed activities such as entrepreneurship, investment, and savings. A number of industrialized countries such as Switzerland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and ...

3. Understanding the significance of the Kinder Morgan decision to suspend the Trans Mountain pipeline

   The decision by Kinder Morgan to suspend all non-essential spending on its Trans Mountain pipeline despite regulatory approval is yet another sign of the significant problems in Canada’s energy sector and indeed our broader economy. Fraser Institute ...

4. 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 ...

5. Canada’s aging population will strain government coffers

   Appeared in Maclean's, October 31, 2017 Last week’s fall fiscal update signalled the federal government’s continued preference for running budget deficits, regardless of the state of the economy. The story is similar across Canada’s provinces where ...

6. Canada’s Aging Population and Implications for Government Finances

   Despite broad public awareness that our society is aging, very little has been done by governments across the country to prepare for the marked aging that has already begun. This study examines the fiscal pressures, specifically the demand for greater ...

7. B.C.’s election—a teachable moment on proportional representation

   Some Green Party policies, which more than 80 per cent of the province voted against, may be adopted. ...

8. Counting Votes: Essays on Electoral Reform

     On June 7, 2016, the government formed the Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reform, as part of the Liberal government’s campaign promise that 2015 would be the last election held under first-past-the-post (FPTP). The committee’s task is to deliver ...

9. More government spending could be on the way if Canada’s electoral system changes

   The federal government plans to change the way Canadians elect their political representatives, and two of the five parties on the parliamentary committee investigating Canada’s options have expressed a preference for proportional ...

10. Changing election rules changes more than just who we elect

    Appeared in the National Post, July 28, 2016 The federal government wants to reform Canada’s electoral system, with a committee now investigating options. But so far, few have acknowledged that changing the way we elect our political representatives could ...