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Transparency and confidence waning in Canada’s mining exploration permit process

Permit Times for Mining Exploration in 2017 finds that investors are losing confidence in the mineral exploration permit process in many Canadian provinces—including British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec—which has grown longer over the past 10 years and less transparent.

Implications of the Proposed Changes to Canada’s Pharmaceutical Pricing Regulations finds that the federal government’s plan to lower the cost of patented pharmaceuticals in Canada through new regulations seriously risks limiting patient access to new innovative drugs. The is the first study in a series on pharmaceutical drug pricing policy reforms.

Phasing Out Supply Management: Lessons from Australia’s Dairy Industry finds that Canadian consumers and the dairy industry could both benefit from phasing out supply management. In fact, immediately following deregulation of Australia’s dairy industry in 2000, the price of milk dropped 12 cents per litre, and farm gate prices—the price farmers receive for their product—increased 56 per cent. Australian milk farmers now export about half their product, making dairy the country’s third most important agricultural export after beef and wheat.

The Effects on Entrepreneurship of Increasing Provincial Top Personal Income Tax Rates in Canada finds that many provincial governments across Canada are discouraging entrepreneurship and preventing hundreds of new businesses from being created by increasing top provincial personal income tax rates, which reduces the incentives for entrepreneurs to start new businesses.

Proportional Representation in Practice: An International Comparison of Ballots and Voting Rules finds that any replacement of B.C.’s current First-Past-The-Post electoral system with a form of Proportional Representation will require trade-offs, an understanding of the impact that such changes will have on the way votes are counted and what impact the new system may have on the legislature and the party system.

Protecting Government from Free Trade: The “Free the Beer” Case at the Supreme Court of Canada argues that the Court effectively nullified section 121 of the Constitution, which states that goods from any province shall be “admitted free into each of the other provinces.” As a result, provincial governments may raise barriers to any products—including beer and wine—from any other province as long as they can identify a regulatory objective in the public interest.

Comparing the Standardized Test Scores of British Columbia’s Public and Independent Schools finds that over a five-year period, students at non-elite independent schools averaged statistically significant higher scores than public students in 10 of the province’s 11 standardized tests in both elementary and secondary schools, even though after-tax incomes for families with children at both types of schools are the same.

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Transparency and confidence waning in Canada’s mining exploration permit process

Transparency and confidence waning in Canada’s mining exploration permit process

Ottawa’s drug-pricing changes risk limiting patient access to new medicines

Ottawa’s drug-pricing changes risk limiting patient access to new medicines

With Canadian milk in NAFTA crosshairs, Australia is proof consumers and farmers can benefit from phasing out supply management

With Canadian milk in NAFTA crosshairs, Australia is proof consumers and farmers can benefit from phasing out supply management

Provincial governments discouraging new businesses from starting with higher income taxes

Provincial governments discouraging new businesses from starting with higher income taxes

Replacing B.C.’s current First-Past-The-Post electoral system would come with trade-offs

Replacing B.C.’s current First-Past-The-Post electoral system would come with trade-offs

Supreme Court rejects Canada as an economic union, green lights provincial trade barriers in ‘free the beer’ ruling

Supreme Court rejects Canada as an economic union, green lights provincial trade barriers in ‘free the beer’ ruling

Non-elite independent school students outperform public school students on standardized tests in B.C.

Non-elite independent school students outperform public school students on standardized tests in B.C.

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Transparency and confidence waning in Canada’s mining exploration permit process

Transparency and confidence waning in Canada’s mining exploration permit process

Ottawa’s drug-pricing changes risk limiting patient access to new medicines

Ottawa’s drug-pricing changes risk limiting patient access to new medicines

With Canadian milk in NAFTA crosshairs, Australia is proof consumers and farmers can benefit from phasing out supply management

With Canadian milk in NAFTA crosshairs, Australia is proof consumers and farmers can benefit from phasing out supply management

Provincial governments discouraging new businesses from starting with higher income taxes

Provincial governments discouraging new businesses from starting with higher income taxes

Replacing B.C.’s current First-Past-The-Post electoral system would come with trade-offs

Replacing B.C.’s current First-Past-The-Post electoral system would come with trade-offs

Supreme Court rejects Canada as an economic union, green lights provincial trade barriers in ‘free the beer’ ruling

Supreme Court rejects Canada as an economic union, green lights provincial trade barriers in ‘free the beer’ ruling

Non-elite independent school students outperform public school students on standardized tests in B.C.

Non-elite independent school students outperform public school students on standardized tests in B.C.