The Canadian-Australian Business Sector Productivity Gap: A Sectoral Analysis is a new study that finds Australians enjoyed higher labour productivity growth than Canadians due largely to improvements in their mining and energy sectors. Critically, Australia experienced an improved labour productivity per worker, on average, by 1.6 per cent every year, compared to Canada's 1.3 per cent annual growth.

The State of Markets in Atlantic Canada is a new study that finds private markets in the Maritimes generally underperformed those in the rest of Canada, with Nova Scotia ranking last among all provinces for private sector investment in 2019 (the most recent year of available data prior to the COVID-19 pandemic), and New Brunswick ranking 8th.

Canada’s Wasteful Plan to Regulate Plastic Waste is a new study that finds Ottawa’s plan to ban plastics by 2030 will have virtually no effect on the environment as only one per cent of Canada’s plastic waste is ever released into the environment as litter, but could ultimately cost Canadians $300 million a year.