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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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Government policies discourage older Canadians from continuing to work [[link removed]]
Barriers to the Labour Force Participation of Older Workers in Canada finds that if governments in Canada want to help seniors who want to continue working, they should remove barriers that discourage them from remaining in the workforce.
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Medical wait times cost Canadian patients almost $4.1 billion in lost wages last year
The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care, 2022 finds long waits for surgery and medical treatment cost Canadians almost $4.1 billion in lost wages and productivity last year. Crucially, the total median wait time in Canada for medical treatment was 25.6 weeks in 2021—the longest in the survey’s history.
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Fraser Forum Podcast
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Conservation, Preservation, and Motivation: Earth Day and Free-Market Approaches to the Environment [[link removed]]
Research fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), and senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, Holly Fretwell, joins me this week in honour of Earth Day to discuss free market approaches to conservation. We even get into the surprising but effective ways property rights and the environment work hand-in-hand.
Commentary and Blog Posts
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Ontario government can learn fiscal lessons from Alberta [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Ben Eisen
Despite steep budget deficits, successive provincial governments have been unwilling to reduce spending.
B.C. government should revitalize standardized testing in schools [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Vancouver Sun) by Michael Zwaagstra
Students in the province now write numeracy and literacy assessments that don’t count towards their final marks.
Earth Day despair (needlessly) springs eternal [[link removed]]
by Pierre Desrochers
Some historical perspective on Earth Day activism suggests cooler heads should prevail in climate change discussions.
Bigger government in Canada—there’s no free lunch [[link removed]]
by Ben Eisen
When tax rates increase, people often change their economic behaviour in ways that shrink the targeted tax base.
Any party leader in Alberta must tackle the debt bulge [[link removed]]
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Tegan Hill
Higher resource revenue accounts for nearly 80 percent of the $11.5 billion improvement in the province's budgetary balance in 2022/23.
Moon race not an apt analogy for today’s energy transition [[link removed]]
by Jason Clemens and Elmira Aliakbari
The carbon tax will cost Canadians an estimated 184,000 jobs.
Ontario economy falls further behind its neighbours [[link removed]]
by Ben Eisen
The region's average per-person GDP is 32.7 per cent larger than Ontario's.
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