Ontario’s Deficit Reduction Strategy Mirrors Previous, Unsuccessful Attempts is a new study that finds while the 2019 Ontario budget is a departure from the last two years of the previous government, it virtually mirrors the spending increases and deficit reduction strategy of former premier Dalton McGuinty, which ultimately proved unsuccessful.

Walled from Competition: Measuring Protected Industries in Canada finds that governments in Canada restrict or prevent foreign competition in 30.6 per cent of Canada’s economy—including key sectors such as air transportation and telecommunications—which can lead to higher prices for consumers and less innovation.

Investment in the Canadian and U.S. Oil and Gas Sectors: A Tale of Diverging Fortunes finds that from 2016 to 2018, capital investment in Canada’s upstream oil and gas industry (essentially, exploration and production) increased only 15 per cent compared to 41 per cent in the U.S. over the same period. And, the percentage of oil and gas capital investment in Canada as a share of total capital investment has plummeted, from 28 per cent in 2014 to 13.9 per cent in 2018.