Understanding the Nature of Canada’s Fiscal and Economic Challenges is a new essay—the first in the Institute’s upcoming series on federal policy reforms—that documents the marked deterioration of Canada’s finances, economic stagnation and the collapse in business investment the country has suffered since 2015.

British Columbia’s Coming Debt Boom in Historical Context is a new study that finds over the next three years, the BC government plans to add a total of $35.6 billion in new debt (adjusting for both inflation and financial assets). This compares with additional debt of $9.9 billion after the pandemic and $17.8 billion after the financial crisis of 2008/09.

A Review of Electric Vehicle Consumer Subsidies in Canada finds that government subsidies for electric vehicle purchases are an extremely costly way to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.