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1. Tax Facts 15

   The average Canadian family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, shelter, and clothing. Have you ever wondered how much tax you pay? How many layers of tax are hidden in the purchases you make every day? Are taxes taking an ever-increasing share of ...

2. How Good Is Canadian Health Care? 2007 Report

   This 2007 edition of How Good Is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...

3. How Good is Canadian Health Care? 2006 Report

   This 2006 edition of How Good is Canadian Health Care? provides answers to a series of questions that are important to resolve if Canada is to make the correct choices as it amends its health care policies. In this study, we primarily compare Canada to ...

4. A Generation Abandoned: B.C. Native Leaders’ Latest $100 million is Meaningless Unless it’s Spent on their Children’s Education

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, September 23, 2005 Last week we had the wonderful scene of aboriginal leaders sitting in the British Columbia legislature for the provincial budget because, as Vancouver Sun columnist, Vaughn Palmer said, the government ...

5. Fraser Forum- March 2004: Families and the State

   In this issue: BC’s Dependency-inducing U-Turn on Welfare Reform by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Sylvia LeRoy The BC government recently de-legitimized one of Canada’s most important social welfare reforms to date. It’s the poor who’ll pay. Private ...

6. Today, I am Embarrassed to be a Canadian

   Appeared in the National Post, March 22, 2003 I wasn’t born a Canadian. I was born in Newfoundland and became a Canadian at age four when as a result of a referendum Newfoundland left British colonial status behind to join the Canadian Federation. For ...

7. Mr. Humes History Lesson

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Feb 7, 2002 Ontario Hydro’s privatization is the latest of a litany of changes reversing the top down government strategy that had been the legacy of the misspent 20th century. And, of course, there is the galling reality ...

8. What is the Solution to the Health Care Impasse?

     Twenty-one years ago the Fraser Institute published a marvellous monograph by Dr. Sandra Christensen entitled, “Unions and the Public Interest”. It did a great job puzzling through the issues associated with trade unionism and the public sector. ...

9. Economic Freedom of the World 2001

     When the Economist Magazine was reviewing the Century in its End of Millennium edition, they returned to a question which has held the fascination of economists and other worldly philosophers for three centuries. That is, why do some nations prosper ...

10. How Taxes Sank the Dollar

      The most fundamental aspects of the Canadian and U.S. economies have not diverged in the past half-century. So why has our dollar been falling since 1950? And, more to the point, how do we stop it? Remember that consensus forecast for a strengthening of ...