Alberta’s Personal Income Tax Increases Likely to Yield Less Revenue than Expected, forecasts how much revenue the Alberta government will likely generate from its personal tax rate increases announced earlier this year. It finds that tax rate increases encourage people to change their behaviour to avoid paying additional taxes, yielding less revenue than expected by governments. In Alberta’s case, the study calculates that the government will likely receive $1.7 billion less than expected from 2016 to 2020.

Alberta’s Budget Deficit: Why Spending Is To Blame concludes that, had the Alberta government limited program spending increases since 2004/05 to keep pace with inflation and a growing population, the province would have a budget surplus of $4.4 billion instead of the projected $5.9 billion deficit—a difference of $10.3 billion.

Ontario—No Longer a Place to Prosper spotlights Ontario’s decline from economic powerhouse to economic laggard. It chronicles successive Ontario government policies that have led to the province’s poor economic performance. It finds that Ontario’s economic growth, employment and per-capita income has lagged behind national averages making Canada’s most populous province less competitive, less prosperous and less attractive for both workers and business investment.