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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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Annual health-care costs for typical Canadian family may eclipse $14,000 this year
The Price of Public Healthcare, 2020 finds that the typical Canadian family will pay $14,474 for public health care this year, and single Canadians will pay $4,894. The study, which reveals the health-care costs—paid in taxes—for Canadians, also measures the growth of health-care costs over time.
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Families earning more than $60,000 per year now fall under new federal ‘poverty line’
A Critical Assessment of Canada’s Official Poverty Line finds that due to the federal government’s newly established official poverty line, some Canadian families earning more than $60,000 annually are now considered impoverished. Drawing the poverty line above families and individuals with near middle-class incomes will do nothing to help eliminate genuine deprivation in Canada.
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Commentary and Blog Posts
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Memo to Finance Minister Freeland—we have an investment crisis in Canada [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Niels Veldhuis and Milagros Palacios
More than $185 billion in net investment left the country from 2014 to 2019.

Freeland takes over during massive federal spending spree [[link removed]]
by Livio Di Matteo
The federal budget deficit in 2020-21 will be the largest in Canadian history.

Policymakers must ditch their fashionable green recovery plans [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Ross McKitrick
Green technologies that were known money-losers pre-COVID remain money-losers today.

Nuclear option makes a lot of green sense [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Robert P. Murphy
Wind and solar require backup generation from other sources.

Ottawa introduces new rules for energy sector at worst possible time [[link removed]]
by Jairo Yunis, Ashley Stedman, and Elmira Aliakbari
Bill C-69 overhauled the entire environmental assessment of major projects and made the regulatory system more complex.

Federal finances remain vulnerable to fluctuating interest rates
(Appeared in Calgary's Business) by Alex Whalen and Milagros Palacios
In the 1990s, federal debt-interest costs routinely eclipsed 30 per cent of revenues.


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