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The Growing Imperative to Create a More Integrated Internal Economy in Canada

The Growing Imperative to Create a More Integrated Internal Economy in Canada is the latest installment in the Institute's series on federal policy reforms. It argues that Canada's trade relationship with the U.S. will likely face future challenges no matter who wins the U.S. presidential election, since both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have signaled they'll pursue protectionist trade policies. As such, governments across Canada should work to eliminate existing barriers to interprovincial trade and labour mobility in order to counteract any diminished trade with the U.S.

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Implications of Decarbonizing Canada's Electricity Grid

Implications of Decarbonizing Canada’s Electricity Grid finds that the federal government’s plan to make all electricity generation in Canada carbon-free by 2035 is impractical and highly unlikely, given physical, infrastructure, financial and regulatory realities.

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BC’s Descriptive Grading on Report Cards Has Parents Yearning for the ABCs

B.C.’s Descriptive Grading on Report Cards Has Parents Yearning for the ABCs finds that the vast majority of parents in Canada easily understand letter grades on report cards but are confused by the new “descriptive” grading recently adopted in British Columbia.

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Economic Recovery in Canada before and after COVID: Job Growth in the Government and Private Sectors finds that historically, no other recent era of recession and recovery in Canada have been so dominated by government sector job growth compared to private sector job growth, with 8 out of 10 provinces' government sector growth exceeding that of the private sector.

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ESG: Myths and Realities - Collected Essays

ESG: Myths and Realities is a collected essay series, edited by Fraser Institute Senior Fellow Steven Globerman, that provides a wide-ranging assessment of the environmental, social and governance movement—known as ESG. Among other considerations, the essays identify and consider the myriad issues that arise when publicly traded companies are directed by government legislation and regulations, or pressured by interest groups, to adopt a broad stakeholder framework rather than a shareholder (or investor) focused framework.

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This year’s Economic Freedom of the World finds that most countries curtailed economic freedom in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic—and Canada is no exception.

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Boosting Canada's Competitiveness by Reforming Business Taxation

Boosting Canada’s Competitiveness by Reforming Business Taxation suggests that only taxing profit disbursements for businesses, which include dividend payments, share buybacks, and bonuses, rather than taxing all business profits, would lead to greater business investment, increasing worker productivity, growth in the economy, and ultimately raise living standards for Canadians.

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