Who was Barbara Mitchell?
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Fumbling the Alberta Advantage

Fumbling the Alberta Advantage: How Alberta Squandered a Decade of High Energy Prices calculates that between 2004/05 and 2013/14 program spending in Alberta jumped to $43.9 billion (or $10,967 per person) from $29 billion (or $8,965 per person). Had spending increases simply been restricted to inflation plus population growth, the province would have saved $49 billion over the past decade, giving the current government an additional $8 billion in fiscal room in the 2013/14 budget.

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Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Ontario

Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Ontario calculates that, on average, government workers in Ontario, including federal, provincial, and local government workers, receive 11.5 per cent higher wages than comparable workers in the private sector.  There are also strong indicators that the government sector, as a whole,  enjoys superior non-wage benefits.

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Education Spending in Canada: What’s Actually Happening? finds that, despite claims to the contrary, spending on public schools in Canada has grown significantly  over the ten-year period ending in 2011/12 (the most recent years for which data is available.)  Specifically, on a per-student basis, spending on public schools has increased 63 per cent, rising to $11,835 from $7,250.

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Ontario’s Debt Balloon: Source and Sustainability

Ontario’s Debt Balloon: Source and Sustainability calculates that Ontario’s government debt has grown by $117 billion since the 2008/09 recession.  The study also examines the source of the new debt and finds that 66 per cent of it is directly attributable to government borrowing to fund day-to-day expenses— not investments in infrastructure.

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Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Alberta

Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Alberta calculates that, on average, government workers in Alberta, including federal, provincial, and local government workers, receive 6.9 per cent higher wages than comparable workers in the private sector. There are also strong indicators that the government sector, as a whole, enjoys superior non-wage benefits.

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The Fraser Institute is once again the top think tank in Canada and this year was ranked among the top 20 think tanks worldwide, according to the 2014 Global Go To Think Tanks Report published by the University of Pennsylvania and released today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.

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Measuring the Fiscal Performance of Canada’s Premiers, 2015

Measuring the Fiscal Performance of Canada's Premiers, 2015 examines the fiscal records of 10 Canadian premiers (five current and five former) relative to each other during their time in office up to the 2013/14 fiscal year. Of the current sitting premiers included in the analysis, Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall ranks first, while Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne — the premier of Canada’s largest province — finishes fourth, just ahead of outgoing Prince Edward Island Premier Robert Ghiz.

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