Low- and middle-income Canadians hit hardest by high marginal effective tax rates

Marginal Effective Tax Rates for Working Families in Canada is a new study that finds Canadian families and individuals with annual incomes between $30,000 and $60,000 face marginal effective tax rates near or above 50 per cent—meaning that across the provinces, individuals and families with relatively modest incomes face the highest rates.

BC and Ontario curriculum guides for Grades 1 to 12 lacking in Canadian history

Canadian History Untold: Assessing the K-12 Curriculum Guides in British Columbia and Ontario finds that the amount of Canadian history being taught to Ontario and BC students in K-12 is limited. In Ontario, what little Canadian history is taught doesn’t follow a logical, chronological order, and in BC’s case, it is overly-focussed on discriminatory events in Canada’s past.

National regulatory reform would encourage investment, promote economic growth, and lower costs for Canadians

Canada’s Regulatory Overburden is the latest essay in the Institute’s series on federal policy reforms. It finds Canadian businesses are overburdened by excessive and costly regulations, which deter investment and stifle economic growth.

The Reality of Socialism: Denmark | Mini-Documentary

The Wall St. Journal’s Mary O’Grady, along with Fraser Institute Senior Fellows Steven Globerman and Matthew Mitchell, explore the reality of socialism in Denmark. Despite what some people claim, Denmark has a long history of embracing competitive markets, free trade, and limited government. And while Denmark did experiment with socialist policies, including significantly larger government, from the 1970s to 1990s, that ended in crisis in the mid-1990s when the country was beset by high unemployment and soaring inflation. To course correct, the Danish government reduced government spending, balanced its budget, and paid down the large debts it had incurred in the previous decades. Denmark maintains a larger welfare state than many other western countries, but it pays for this welfare state with higher taxes levied on average Danes.

Commentary and Blog Posts

Honda deal latest episode of corporate welfare in Ontario

(Appeared in the National Post) by Jake Fuss and Tegan Hill

Other automakers will likely ask for similar handouts from Ontario and the federal government.

Federal government’s ‘fudget budget’ relies on fanciful assumptions of productivity growth

(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Niels Veldhuis and Jake Fuss

From 2015 to 2023, omitting 2020 due to COVID, labour productivity has declined by an average of 0.8 per cent annually.

Bill Maher is right about Canadian health care

(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Mackenzie Moir

Among countries with universal health care, Canada has some of the lowest numbers of physicians, hospital beds and MRI machines.

Smartphone ban in New Brunswick classrooms can’t come soon enough

(Appeared in the Fredericton Daily Gleaner) by Paige MacPherson and Alex Whalen

From 2003 to 2022, the province's math scores plummeted by 44 points.

Municipal dollars in Ontario—where did the money go?

by Livio Di Matteo

Municipal government spending in the province has grown 2.5 times faster than general inflation and two times faster than population.

Canadians should decide what to do with their money—not politicians and bureaucrats

(Appeared in the Winnipeg Sun) by Jake Fuss and Grady Munro

Only 16 per cent of Canadians said they receive good or great value for their tax dollars.

Alberta government should create flat 8% personal and business income tax rate in Alberta

(Appeared in True North) by Tegan Hill

Flat tax systems encourage stronger economic growth, higher tax revenues and a more robust economy.

Nova Scotians still face longest health-care wait times in Canada

(Appeared in the Halifax Chronicle Herald) by Mackenzie Moir and Alex Whalen

The province's median wait between referral from a family doctor and receipt of treatment was 56.7 weeks.

Ontario government’s economic plan full of obvious flaws

(Appeared in the Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal) by Jake Fuss

Government-sector employment in the province is up 18.5 per cent compared to only 11.7 per cent for the private sector.

Federal capital gains tax hike will hurt New Brunswickers

(Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal) by Alex Whalen

The province had the third-lowest level of per-worker business investment in Canada.

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