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1. Private schools are not subsidized

   “The construction of narratives,” wrote the late Neil Postman, “is a major business of our species.” The New York cultural critic, writing in a 2000 book, mused about how difficult it was to move people from myths to facts. Skip ahead to the 21st century, ...

2. Bombardier and Canada's corporate welfare trap

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province In the land of government plenty that vast landscape populated with the tax dollars of Canadians there is no shortage of politicians willing to hand out and defend subsidies to business and no dearth of corporations ...

3. An early Christmas present for the aerospace industry

   Appeared in the Financial Post Most people wait until December 25th for Christmas presents. Apparently, the exception is Canada’s aerospace sector, recently the recipient of an early-season gift from former federal cabinet minister David Emerson. Emerson ...

4. Corporate Welfare Bargains at Industry Canada

   This Alert reviews payments made to businesses over the last 30 years by Canada's federal department of industry, a practice known as corporate welfare. The information was gathered through an Access to Information request to Industry Canada. This ...

5. Canada's airports: The new train stations

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal, and Winnipeg Free Press For those fortunate enough to travel to Europe this summer, or even some of North America’s older cities, take a good look at the train stations. They reveal much about ...

6. Once again Quebec more equal than other provinces

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Winnipeg Free Press In the 1992 referendum on the Charlottetown Accord, British Columbians rejected the proposed amendments to Canada’s constitution with the highest “no” vote in the country (68.3%). Also in the “no” ...

7. The auto bailout was always a bad idea

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Milton Friedman once said his greatest fear about the 1979 bailout of Chrysler by the U.S. federal government was not that it would fail, but that it would succeed. Friedman didn’t mean he was wrong to oppose it. What ...

8. Corporate welfare breaks the $200-billion mark: An update on 13 years of business subsidies in Canada

   In late 2007, when the Fraser Institute published the first study on corporate welfare, the tally between April 1, 1994 and March 31, 2004 amounted to $144 billion. Two years later, we have statistics up to March 31, 2007; the total now stands at $202.7 ...

9. Corporate welfare: Now a $182 billion addiction

   When the Fraser Institute published the first study on corporate welfare one year ago, the tally between April 1, 1994 and March 30, 2004 amounted to $144 billion. One year later, and with two more years of data available, that figure has climbed to over ...

10. Corporate Welfare: A $144 billion addiction

    This report looks at the amount of money Canadian governments of all levels spent on corporate welfare over a 10-year period. It provides repayment records by year with respect to specific programs or agencies involved in corporate welfare. It notes the ...