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1. Are the Provinces Really Shortchanged by Federal Transfers?

   In recent years, government officials from several provinces and a number of commentators have suggested that inadequate transfers from the federal government are a contributing factor to the persistent deficits that exist in several provinces. This study ...

2. The Cost of Government Debt in Canada, 2016

   Budget deficits and increasing debt are key fiscal issues as the federal and provincial governments prepare to release their budgets this year. Combined federal and provincial net debt has increased from $834 billion in 2007/08 to a projected $1.3 ...

3. Generosity in Canada and the United States: The 2015 Generosity Index

   Manitoba had the highest percentage of tax filers that donated to charity among the provinces (25.3%) during the 2013 tax year while New Brunswick had the lowest (20.0%). Manitoba also donated the highest percentage of its aggregate income to charity ...

4. How does Alberta’s deficit stack up against the other provinces?

   Alberta’s budget is coming in a couple weeks and expectations are that the government will unveil a deficit for the current fiscal year totalling at least $5.9 billion. How does this number stack up against the other provinces? Let’s ...

5. Raising corporate taxes is bad economic policy

   One of Canada’s most important positive policy reforms over the past 15 years has been on corporate taxes. Federal and provincial governments of all political stripes realized the economically damaging effect of corporate income taxes ...

6. Taxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index, 2015 Edition

   The Canadian Consumer Tax Index tracks the total tax bill of the average Canadian family from 1961 to 2014. Including all types of taxes, that bill has increased by 1,886% since 1961. Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single expenditure ...

7. The Price of Public Health Care Insurance: 2015 Edition

   Canadians often misunderstand the true cost of our public health care system. This occurs partly because Canadians do not incur direct expenses for their use of health care, and partly because Canadians cannot readily determine the value of their ...

8. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2015 edition

   One measure of the privately borne cost of wait times is the value of time that is lost while waiting for treatment. Valuing only hours lost during the average work week, the estimated cost of waiting for care in Canada for patients who were in the queue ...

9. Canadians Celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 10, 2015

   On Tax Freedom Day, the average Canadian family has earned enough money to pay the taxes imposed on it by the three levels of government: federal, provincial, and local. In 2015, Canadians celebrate Tax Freedom Day on June 10. That is, Canadians will have ...

10. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Canada

    With heightened interest in how wages and non-wage benefits in the government sector compare with those in the private sector, this study estimates wage differentials between the government and private sector in Canada. It also evaluates four available ...