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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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Economic freedom on the wane across Canada
According to this year’s Economic Freedom of North America report, which measures government spending, taxation and labour market restrictions, Canadian provinces once again lag behind U.S. states.
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Effective spending rules would result in balanced federal budget by 2025/26, even with COVID emergency relief
Tax and Expenditure Limitations for Canada’s Federal Government: A Primer is a new study that finds if the federal government had introduced more discipline on the growth in government spending beginning in 2015—even one that allowed for all the COVID emergency spending—the federal budget could have been balanced by 2025/26. Instead, the Parliamentary Budget Officer predicts it will be at least 2070 before the budget is balanced.
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Fraser Forum Podcast
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Episode 14 - Kenneth Green [[link removed]]
A Hefty Margin of Error: the pitfalls of over-reliance on modelling in public policy
Senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, Kenneth Green, joins me this week to discuss the issue of modelling in public policy, and how people often carry errors through reliance on particular models. We even get into regulation, carbon taxes, and environmental economics.
Commentary and Blog Posts
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Trudeau’s emissions cap reminds westerns of his father’s National Energy Program [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Globe and Mail) by Lydia Miljan
There’s scant evidence the carbon tax has helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Canada’s health-care system—the status quo is unsustainable [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Bacchus Barua and Jake Fuss
Our aging population will put significant pressure on health-care expenditures.
Spending on Indigenous settlements has spiralled out of control [[link removed]]
by Tom Flanagan
Recent class actions demand payment not just for individuals but also for family members and entire communities.
Climate targets will make things worse for humanity [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Robert P. Murphy
The standard climate literature does not justify the Paris Agreement's emission goals.
Should cities remain creatures of the province? Yes [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Toronto Star) by Lydia Miljan
There’s no appetite among the general public to give the City of Toronto constitutional status.
Trudeau emissions plan impossible without huge energy costs and/or imports [[link removed]]
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Elmira Aliakbari, Milagros Palacios, and Jason Clemens
The government has provided no information about who will pay these enormous costs or where all the new electricity will be produced.
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