The Canadian retirement income system already provides Canadians with an adequate standard of living in retirement.
Government Spending & Taxes
December 21, 2015
3:00AM
Between 2001 and 2008, Ontario provincial government spending grew at an average of five per cent annually while revenues only grew four per cent.
December 18, 2015
10:31AM
Name something our governments aren’t already doing. Now name something our governments are doing spectacularly well.
December 16, 2015
10:12AM
As recent as 2009/10, Quebec’s per-person net debt burden was approximately $4,400 higher than Ontario’s. That gap is projected to be just $1,100 this year.
December 15, 2015
9:42AM
The federal government’s projected fiscal balance has gone from a $4.3 billion surplus to a budget deficit that could be as large as $25 billion.
December 15, 2015
3:00AM
Alberta continues to face significant economic challenges. Rather than make matters worse, governments should implement pro-growth economic policies.
December 9, 2015
3:00AM
While some provinces have taken steps to rein in spending and balance budgets, Ontario is a laggard and Alberta has embarked on a new road to debt.
December 7, 2015
9:10AM
The federal Liberals delivered their Throne Speech last week, emphasizing the planned middle-class tax cut. Yet there are two major problems with the government's proposed tax reform.
December 4, 2015
9:03AM
The Ontario government is considering subsidies for the province’s fashion industry, which is a bad a idea for many reasons.
December 4, 2015
3:00AM
Tax hikes—particularly on upper earners—tend to bring in less revenue for governments than expected because people change their behaviour in ways that reduce the impact of the tax hikes on their tax bill.
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