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  1. Linking government compensation to private sector can help repair Ontario’s finances

    Appeared in the National Post, February 7, 2017 With a projected $4.3 billion deficit this year and mounting debt as far as the eye can see, the Wynne government will have to better control spending to repair the damage to Ontario’s finances. In these ...

  2. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Ontario, 2017

    Using data on individual workers from January to December 2015, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in Ontario. It also evaluates four available non-wage benefits in an attempt to quantify compensation ...

  3. It’s official—Ontario’s coal phase-out was all for nothing

    Appeared in the Financial Post, January 17, 2017 The federal Liberal government plans to impose a national coal phase-out, based on the same faulty arguments used in Ontario, namely that such a move will yield significant environmental benefits and reduce ...

  4. Did the Coal Phase-out Reduce Ontario Air Pollution?

    In 2005, the province of Ontario began a process that would eventually lead to the phasing out of its coal-fired power plants, the largest of which were the Lambton and Nanticoke facilities in southern Ontario. The rationale for shuttering these plants ...

  5. A worrying trend—size of government in Canada on the rise

    Every year Maclean's magazine invites economists and policy analysts to submit what they think is the most important chart Canadians should watch in the upcoming year, as it relates to the economy. Needless to say, choosing a single ...

  6. Municipal finances in Ontario—growing water charges, too

    While there is a growing property tax burden in Ontario, what’s often left out of the discussion is the parallel rise in separate water and sewer/wastewater charges. The BMA Management Consulting Group’s annual municipal studies present ...

  7. Narrative about Canada’s post-recession economic superiority overlooks provincial laggards east of Manitoba

    A popular narrative holds that Canada weathered the global financial crisis and recession relatively well, outperforming many advanced countries economically since 2009. This is true for the country as whole particularly when Canada is ...

  8. A new year’s resolution for Ontario’s government: Reduce spending

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, January 6, 2016 As the new year begins, many Ontarians are making resolutions to address long-standing problems or bad habits. For Ontario’s provincial government, the appropriate new year’s resolution is clear: it should ...

  9. Where red tape grows, growth in housing development may suffer

    New housing is a key component to urban growth, and regulation that adds costs and slows housing development can restrain its supply. A recent series of Fraser Institute studies presents new data measuring how regulation affects ...

  10. Poor policies largely drive Ontario’s lagging labour market performance

    This second post on Ontario’s lack of prosperity focuses on unemployment in the province, a key measure of the performance of the labour market. Recall that the first post illustrated the poor economic growth recorded in the province vis ...