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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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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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(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.
by Livio Di Matteo
The federal budget deficit in 2020-21 will be the largest in Canadian history.
(Appeared in the Financial Post) by Ross McKitrick
Green technologies that were known money-losers pre-COVID remain money-losers today.
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Robert P. Murphy
Wind and solar require backup generation from other sources.
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.
(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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