Ontario is roughly three times larger than both B.C. and Alberta.
size of government
May 17, 2022
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Government spending represented 40.4 per cent of the country's economy in 2019, up from 37.4 per cent in 2007.
April 22, 2022
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When tax rates increase, people often change their economic behaviour in ways that shrink the targeted tax base.
April 11, 2022
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In the last year of reliable data before the pandemic, government spending in Nova Scotia represented 60.2 per cent of the economy.
December 16, 2021
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The top 20 per cent of income-earning families in Canada pay more than half of total taxes.
September 17, 2021
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According to estimates, economic growth is maximized when government spending is about 26 per cent of GDP.
July 12, 2021
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Subnational jurisdictions of around 9.5 million people seem to be the fastest-growing economies.