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ESG is Corporate Socialism

ESG is Corporate Socialism is the latest installment in the Institute’s series on the Environmental, Social and Governance movement. It details how ESG undermines the duty of business executives to act in the best interests of the corporation, and in so doing, actually undermines capitalism itself.

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The Growing Debt Burden for Canadians: 2023 Edition

The Growing Debt Burden for Canadians: 2023 Edition finds that not only has Canada’s projected combined government debt (the federal debt and the provincial debt of all 10 provinces) nearly doubled since 2007/08, the year before the last recession, but the combined debt now equals 74.6 per cent of the Canadian economy.

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Broken Promises: The Persistence of Elevated Personal and Corporate Income Taxes in Ontario

Broken Promises: The persistence of elevated personal and corporate income taxes in Ontario is a new study that finds due to both federal and provincial tax hikes, Ontario now has the third highest top combined federal/provincial or federal/ state top income tax rate in Canada or the United States—having jumped from 46.41 per cent in 2012 to 53.53 per cent.

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The End of Spending Restraint in British Columbia

The End of Spending Restraint in British Columbia finds that after a long period of relative spending restraint, the B.C. government significantly increased spending—even before any COVID-related spending began.

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Politicized Science

Politicized Science, by journalist and bestselling author John Tierney, is the next installment in the Institute’s series on COVID-19 that details why sound public health science and best practices were ignored during the pandemic in favour of restrictive lockdowns and other mandates with devastating results.

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The Abject Failure of Central Planning During COVID

The Abject Failure of Central Planning During COVID is a new essay in the Institute’s series on COVID-19 by Senior Fellow David R. Henderson that explores some of the core reasons why many government plans and policies failed during the pandemic.

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Generosity in Canada: The 2022 Generosity Index

Generosity in Canada: The 2022 Generosity Index finds that the total amount donated to registered charities by Canadians in 2020—just 0.49 per cent of their income—is the lowest amount since at least 2000. Moreover, the number of Canadians donating to charity—as a percentage of all tax filers—has fallen from 25.5 per cent to 19.1 per cent over the past two decades.

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