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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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Households earning less than $40,000 now receive 16% of total federal child benefits—down from more than 21%
Is the Canada Child Benefit Targeted to those Most in Need?, part one of an essay series on the Canada Child Benefit (CCB), finds that families with less than $40,000 of annual household income receive 16.2 per cent of total benefits from the CCB program—compared to 21.8 per cent under two child benefit programs scrapped by the federal government in 2016.
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Number of new homes in Vancouver and Toronto metro areas not keeping pace with number of new jobs
Job Creation and Housing Starts in Canada’s Largest Metropolitan Areas is a new study that finds the Vancouver and Toronto areas—while accounting for less than 25 per cent of Canada’s population, accounted for 120,000 new jobs from 2015 to 2019. But over the same period, the number of new housing starts in the two regions remained largely stagnant at approximately 57,000 a year—a rate that has largely been unchanged since 2002.
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Commentary and Blog Posts
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If carbon taxes work, why all the new regulations? [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the National Post) by Ross McKitrick
Revenue-neutrality for governments will require other taxes to go up, not down.
Government wages and employee numbers drive municipal spending across Canada [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Livio Di Matteo
Property taxes alone account for 48 per cent of revenues.
Ottawa reducing value of money and spending billions [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Fred McMahon
Inflation peaked at 14 per cent in Canada and the U.S.
Government should allow First Nations to freely compete in gaming industry [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Globe and Mail) by Tom Flanagan
Casino revenues from remote locations are not large enough to be economically transformative.
Spend first, ask questions later—not sustainable fiscal policy [[link removed]]
by Livio Di Matteo
Running upwards of a $400 billion deficit for the duration of the pandemic is fiscally irresponsible.
Trudeau government deals another blow to Newfoundland and Labrador [[link removed]]
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Alex Whalen, Elmira Aliakbari
Ottawa expects firms to commit to things they can’t possibly predict.
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