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  1. Comparing the Standardized Test Scores of British Columbia’s Public and Independent Schools

    Main Conclusions In all six Foundation Skill Assessment exams (FSAs), non-elite independent schools had a higher five-year average score than public schools, by statistically significant amounts. The largest difference on FSA exams was in Writing: non ...

  2. Expansion of the Canada Pension Plan and the Unintended Effect on Domestic Investment

    Beginning in 2019, mandatory contributions by Canadian workers to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) will increase, step by step, over seven years. While the expansion of the CPP may be well intentioned, it will result in several unintended consequences. One ...

  3. Time for Tax Reform in Ontario

    Over the past fifteen years, Ontario’s provincial economy has struggled relative to the rest of the country. The reasons for Ontario’s economic weakness are complex and varied. However, public policy choices have been a contributing factor. One area that ...

  4. Alternative Paths for Alberta's Budget: Balance by 2023/24 Is Not Enough

    Alberta faces significant fiscal and economic challenges. The government has run nearly uninterrupted deficits since 2008/09 and has seen an approximately $57 billion decline in its net financial assets between 2008/09 and 2017/18. The government has ...

  5. Canada should attract—not repel—top talent including CEOs

    Appeared in the Financial Post, January 3, 2018 Along with the perennial New Year’s resolutions, January also typically features a swat of commentaries decrying CEO pay and demands for new regulations and taxes. Unfortunately these cries for ever-larger ...

  6. CEO to Worker Pay: A Broader Examination

    A 2017 CCPA report found that the average compensation for the 100 highest-paid CEOs in Canada was $9.5 million, which was 193 times higher than the average industrial wage in Canada ($49,510). Extending the analysis to include all CEOs in the ...

  7. Towards a Better Understanding of Income Inequality in Canada

    In recent years, income inequality has become one of the most animating—and unfortunately most misunderstood—economic and social issues of our time. Sparked by the 2008-09 recession, the well-deserved backlash against corporate bailouts, the Occupy Wall ...

  8. The Impact of Interprovincial Migration of Seniors on Provincial Health Care Spending

    The dominant role played by government financing in Canada’s single-payer health care system has led to an oversight related to demographics: senior migration. Health care spending is skewed towards the first year of life and after retirement. The ...

  9. Comparing the Family Income of Students in Alberta’s Independent and Public Schools

    On average, families with children in independent schools earned $130,127 in after-tax income compared to $97,301, on average, for families with children in public schools, which represents a difference of 33.7 percent. If the families with ...

  10. Removing resource revenue from equalization would do nothing for Alberta

    Appeared in National Newswatch, October 5, 2017 Recently Jason Kenney (pictured above), candidate for the leadership of Alberta’s United Conservative Party, called for reform to Canada’s equalization program. Specifically, he suggested a referendum in ...