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FRASER UPDATE
A weekly digest of our latest research, commentary, and blog posts
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Latest Research
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Housing completions not keeping pace with population— 2018 to 2022, population growth averaged more than 550,000 per year compared to only 200,000 new homes
Canada’s Growing Housing Gap: Comparing Population Growth and Housing Completions in Canada, 1972-2022 finds that the gap between the number of homes built and the number of additional people in Canada is the widest it’s been in 50 years.
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Canada ranks 22nd out of 28 countries with universally accessible health care on psychiatric care beds
Mental Health Care: How is Canada Doing? compares Canada’s mental health services to other countries with universally accessible health care and finds that, despite the Canadian government spending a larger share of health dollars on mental health services, Canada has relatively fewer psychiatric care beds (ranking 22nd out of 28 nations), psychiatrists (ranking 16th out of 28 nations), and psychologists (ranking 15th out of 26 nations) in addition to growing wait times.
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Commentary and Blog Posts
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Here’s how government can help permanent immigrants find work and earn good money [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Jock Finlayson and Steven Globerman
The selection process for permanent residents should give more weight to language proficiency.
Ottawa’s new ‘energy efficiency’ regulations will increase home prices in Alberta [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Tegan Hill and Elmira Aliakbari
Energy efficiency mandates often fall short of achieving meaningful reductions in emissions.
Lack of medical resources cost Canadians dearly [[link removed]]
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Mackenzie Moir
Last year, the median wait between a specialist referral and treatment was 14.8 weeks in Canada.
Nova Scotia government closed schools even after reality of COVID became clear [[link removed]]
by Paige MacPherson
By December 2020, a large body of research showed that children represented two per cent or less of diagnosed COVID cases.
Ottawa’s super-charged EV obsession reaches new heights [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Kenneth P. Green
Electric vehicles have consistently failed to compete with combustion vehicles on performance and cost.
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