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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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92% of minimum-wage earners in Canada don’t live in low-income households
Who Earns the Minimum Wage in Canada? is a new study that finds despite misperceptions, raising the minimum wage would do little to reduce poverty in Canada. That’s because 92.3 per cent of minimum-wage earners in Canada don’t live in low-income families. In fact, the majority of minimum-wage earners in 2019 (the latest year of available data) were teenagers or young adults aged 15-24, many of whom live with their parents or other family members.
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Federal Indigenous spending up more than 90% since 2015
Fiscal Explosion: Federal Spending on Indigenous Programs, 2015-2022 finds that since 2015 federal spending on Indigenous programs has skyrocketed from $12.4 billion to $24 billion—or by 94.3 per cent.
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New book explores key ideas of the Enlightenment
The Essential Enlightenment spotlights the intellectual and philosophical movement, based largely in Europe, that spawned the rise of reason and the scientific method.
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FRASER FORUM
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Joseph Quesnel [[link removed]]
Foresight, Front and Centre: Entrepreneurship and Indigenous autonomy in Canada
Senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and former policy analyst at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Joseph Quesnel, joins me this week to discuss aboriginal entrepreneurship and the relationship between Indigenous autonomy, reconciliation, and the government of Canada.
Commentary and Blog Posts
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Infrastructure—not a quick fix for inflation [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Jason Clemens and Jake Fuss
Supply chains involve countless firms across the globe that contribute to the production and sale of goods.
Forced transition to wind and solar will impose real costs on Canadians [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Cornelis "Kees" van Kooten and Elmira Aliakbari
It will cost up to an estimated $37.7 billion annually for Canada to move from coal to renewables.
Quebec’s Bill 96 motivated by false fears about language and misunderstanding about economics [[link removed]]
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Yanick Labrie
New regulations about language use will make it harder for businesses to cater to tourists and foreign students.
Central planning by business is still central planning [[link removed]]
by Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis
Canada plans to impose a punitive tax on carbon to discourage emissions, at $170 per tonne by 2030.
Renewed controversy over the Nobel Prize in economics [[link removed]]
by Philip Cross
The Nobel apparently endorsed a paper that contradicts the vast majority of research on minimum wages and job losses.
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