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  1. A Turning Point or More of the Same? Ontario's Fiscal Choices in Budget 2019

    As the Ford government approaches its first full budget, it must decide how to confront the $13.6 billion deficit it faces, as well as the stock of public debt forecasted to reach $346 billion this year. There is nothing new about Ontario’s difficult ...

  2. Albertans contribute disproportionately to the CPP and other programs

    Appeared in the National Post, April 4, 2019 There’s a palpable rising frustration in western Canada, particularly in Alberta, regarding the give-and-take of national programs —a growing sense (again) that Ottawa just doesn’t understand the West. ...

  3. Albertans Make Disproportionate Contributions to National Programs: The Canada Pension Plan as a Case Study

    Alberta disproportionately contributes to a host of national and federal programs. This bulletin examines the province’s contributions to the Canada Pension Plan. In 2017, Alberta workers represented 16.5 percent of the total contributions to the ...

  4. A Spending Framework for Alberta: Balancing the Need for Deficit Elimination and Tax Reform

    This paper calculates the extent of spending reductions that Alberta would need to make over the next three years to eliminate the province’s budget deficit by fiscal year 2021/22 while also creating the necessary fiscal room for pro-growth tax relief. ...

  5. Education Spending in Public Schools in Canada: 2019 Edition

    This study focuses on the change in education spending on public schools over the last decade (2006/07 to 2015/16). It has two main parts. The first part focuses on the change in spending on public schools over the last decade, and the second part expands ...

  6. Innovation in Canada: An Assessment of Recent Experience

    For decades, the Canadian federal government, as well as provincial governments, have implemented policies to promote commercial innovation. Notwithstanding, it is widely acknowledged that Canada’s innovation performance has been, and remains, relatively ...

  7. CEO to Worker Pay: Global Competition for Top Talent

    A 2018 CCPA report found that the average compensation for the 100 highest-paid CEOs in Canada was $10.4 million, 209 times higher than the average industrial wage in Canada ($49,738). Extending the analysis to include all CEOs in the survey ...

  8. Reforming Capital Gains Taxes in Alberta

    Capital gains taxes impose comparatively large costs on the economy by discouraging needed activities such as entrepreneurship, investment, and savings. A number of industrialized countries such as Switzerland, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and ...

  9. K-12 Education Reform in Alberta

    Primary and secondary (K-12) education is one of the most important services supported by provincial governments as it provides the next generation with the foundation of knowledge, experience, and skills necessary for their success as adults. It is the ...

  10. Comparing Municipal Government Finances in Metro Vancouver, 2018 Edition

    Municipal governments play an important role in the lives of British Columbians by providing important services and collecting taxes. But municipal finances do not receive the same degree of public scrutiny as the finances of senior governments. This can ...