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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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Canada’s health-care wait times hit 25.6 weeks in 2021—longest ever recorded
Waiting Your Turn: Wait Times for Health Care in Canada, 2021 is a new study that finds Canada’s health-care wait times reached 25.6 weeks in 2021—the longest ever recorded—and 175 per cent higher than the 9.3 weeks Canadians waited in 1993, when the Fraser Institute began tracking medical wait times. Before this year, the longest recorded wait time was 22.6 weeks in 2020. Atlantic Canada has the longest wait times in the country this year, and Ontario recorded the shortest wait time, which was still more than four months long.
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83% of world’s population live in countries where freedom declined
This year’s Human Freedom Index finds that, even before COVID and the response from governments worldwide, global freedom was on the wane.
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FRASER FORUM Podcast
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Episode 16 - Don Boudreaux [[link removed]]
Well-Meaning and Wrong-Headed: the morality of the minimum wage in Canada and the US
Professor of economics and former economics department chair at George Mason University, and senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, Don Boudreaux, joins me this week to discuss the minimum wage, the morality behind the concept, and both the intended and unintended consequences. We even discuss the differences between minimum wage in Canada and the US.
Commentary and Blog Posts
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Equalization ‘overpayments’ will keep growing [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Ben Eisen
According to forecasts, overpayments will account for 35 per cent of the program’s cost in 2025/26.
Ottawa’s spending spree comes with huge costs [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Vancouver Sun) by Jason Clemens, Milagros Palacios, and Jake Fuss
The national debt will reach a projected $2 trillion by 2025-26.
Minimum wage hike will hurt—not help—vulnerable workers [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Matthew Lau
Minimum wage increases can lead to employment losses for the least advantaged members of the labour force.
Federal finances marginally improve but Trudeau government ignores risks [[link removed]]
by Jake Fuss and Alex Whalen
According to the update, the government will continue to spend well in excess of projected revenues.
Policymakers must address Canada’s business investment crisis [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Canadian Business Quarterly) by Steven Globerman
From 2014 to 2019, seven of 15 major industries experienced a decline in investment.
All families should have access to independent schools during COVID and beyond [[link removed]]
by Derek J. Allison
Government has an obligation to ensure all children are educated, but this does not mean government must run every school it funds.
‘Renewable’ energy can’t replace fossil fuels [[link removed]]
by Cornelis "Kees" van Kooten
Solar panels contain a variety of toxic chemicals including lead.
Millions of Canadians enjoy representation without taxation [[link removed]]
by Tegan Hill and Jake Fuss
The top 20 per cent of income-earning families in Canada pay more than half of total taxes.
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