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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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Size of government on the rise across Canada
The Size of Government in Canada in 2019 is a new study that finds the size of government across Canada was on the rise even before the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. In fact, relative to the size of the provincial economies, the size of government increased in all but two provinces over the 2007 to 2019 period.
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Australia reverses long-standing Canadian advantage, now enjoys higher living standard
Understanding the Prosperity Gap between Australia and Canada finds that from roughly the early 1950s to 2008, Canadians enjoyed a higher standard of living (as measured by per-person GDP, after adjusting for inflation) than Australians—but that advantage has been reversed since 2009 due in part to diverging levels of business investment.
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Fraser Forum Podcast
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Don't Retreat, Reload: The Fundamental Problem with Ottawa's 'Buy-Back' Program [[link removed]]
Professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University and senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, Gary Mauser, joins me this week to discuss gun policy in Canada, specifically Ottawa's 'buy-back' program. We even get into different firearm classifications and what exactly is meant by 'assault-style' weapons.
Commentary and Blog Posts
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Alberta faces future of declining resource revenues and aging population [[link removed]] (Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Tegan Hill
By 2043, Albertans aged 65 or older will account for a projected 19 per cent of the province's population.
Rules of the game matter, even in politics [[link removed]]
by Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis
Rules that impose mandatory fiscal discipline help produce better and more responsible fiscal outcomes.
Federal government contradicts own objectives by raising taxes on lower-income families [[link removed]]
by Jake Fuss, Milagros Palacios, and Nathaniel Li
On average, couples with children in the bottom 20 per cent pay $318 per year more than they did previously.
Waning presence of labour unions good for all workers [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Matthew Lau
Unions restrict worker choice, prevent job formation, discourage work effort and cut economic productivity.
Pursue natural gas in Atlantic region [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal) by Alex Whalen and Elmira Aliakbari
Atlantic Canada has the potential to alleviate Europe’s natural gas shortfall while generating investment and jobs here at home.
The evidence is clear—Alberta is no ‘petrostate’ [[link removed]]
by Ben Eisen
With respect to employment, Alberta’s was the most diversified economy in Canada in 2020.
Canada can promote world peace by reorienting climate policy [[link removed]]
(Appeared in National Newswatch) by Kenneth P. Green
Prime Minister Trudeau plans to phase-out fossil fuel use in Canada.
Russia and its former satellites lag behind rest of Europe on per-capita GDP [[link removed]]
by Livio Di Matteo
The Czech Republic has the highest per-capita GDP among former eastern bloc countries.
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