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1. The Do's and Don'ts of Housing Policy

   This book is the second in the Institute's on-going housing economics series, the first of which was: "Rent Control—A Popular Paradox." Economist Raymond Heung's book is a case study of housing in British Columbia. As well as taking ...

2. Have Controls Ever Worked? The post-war record

   Worsening inflation produces a growing call for governments to do something about it. A seemingly attractive policy choice is the introduction of wage and price controls. In view of Canada's current anti-inflation program, this study (the second in a ...

3. How much tax do you really pay?

   This Guide is a summary of the results of a Fraser Institute project that began in July, 1975. The objective of the project was to find out how much tax, in all forms, Canadians pay to Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments and how the size of this ...

4. Wage and Price Controls: Panacea for Inflation or Prescription for Disaster?

   This Study by Professor J. Carr of the University of Toronto is the first in a series of six on the topic of wage and price controls that the Fraser Institute published. Each of the studies in the series is designed to deal with a particular aspect of ...

5. Rent Control: A Popular Paradox

   Every well intentioned person who concerns himself with economic problems of housing has the same basic objective, namely to determine the best way to provide every Canadian with access to the "best possible standard of housing". A similar ...

6. Focus on Employment Equity

   Nothing abuses a person's sense of natural justice more than unequal treatment of equals. In recent times, the existence of discrimination has increasingly troubled citizens and lawmakers. This concern has been expressed in the drive for equal pay ...