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FRASER UPDATE
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Latest Research
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Atlantic Canada lost 66,396 people to the rest of the country since 2000
Voting with their feet: Migration in Atlantic Canada is a new study that finds from 2000/01 to 2019/20, 66,396 more residents left Atlantic Canada for provinces outside the region compared to people outside of the region moving to Atlantic Canada. In addition, young, working-aged people disproportionately left the region during this period. A total of 74.3 per cent of Atlantic Canada’s interprovincial outmigrants during this period moved to Alberta and Ontario.
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Regulations disproportionately hurt low-income workers trying to climb income ladder
Economic Freedom Promotes Upward Income Mobility finds that the costs of government regulation, including labour regulations such as licencing and accreditation, represent a real barrier for Canadians—especially low-income Canadians—trying to move up the income ladder.
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Commentary and Blog Posts
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Both frontrunning parties muddy their spending plans [[link removed]]
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Jake Fuss and Jason Clemens
The NDP has been the most transparent by clearly stating it would introduce a host of tax hikes.
IPCC relies on foregone conclusions to push preferred ‘climate’ narrative [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the National Post) by Ross McKitrick
Critical voices in climate research often struggle to be heard.
Ottawa’s new gender pay ‘equity’ law will actually hurt female workers [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Matthew Lau
Ottawa wants to force workplaces to provide free women’s sanitary products to employees.
Saskatchewan should establish new strict rules to save resource revenue [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Saskatoon StarPhoenix) by Tegan Hill and Jason Clemens
The province's massive budget deficit continues a trend that started well before the pandemic.
Calls for ever higher federal transfers disconnected from economic reality [[link removed]]
by Livio Di Matteo
Provincial transfers represented about 21 per cent of federal spending, up from 13 per cent in 1997.
Report paints bleak picture of Alberta’s fiscal future [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Ben Eisen
The province's per-person spending is significantly higher than in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec.
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