While Canadians may embrace buying Canadian food products in retaliation for the trade dispute with the U.S., it won’t come cheap By Sylvain Charlebois Senior Fellow Atlantic Institute for Market Studies Canadians are encouraging one another to go “Trump-free” –…
The government should stop kicking the can down the road and reduce federal spending now to avoid future tax increases By Charles Lammam and Hugh MacIntyre The Fraser Institute The federal government ran a $19.4-billion budget deficit in 2017-18, according…
B.C. government sending all the wrong signals to investors, which could lead to a rude economic awakening By Charles Lammam, Hugh MacIntyre & Ashley Stedman The Fraser Institute Consumer spending and a hot real estate market have helped buoy British…
Although we know that universal systems elsewhere deliver more timely access at similar or lower costs, we still pursue wrong-headed policies By Bacchus Barua Associate director Centre for Health Policy Studies The Fraser Institute Canada’s national shame is at a…
Migrating seniors are likely to have paid most of their lifetime taxes in one province while consuming most of their health care in another By Ashley Stedman and Jason Clemens The Fraser Institute An imbalance in health-care funding caused by…
British Columbia’s Green party says it will introduce a private member’s bill this week that backs ride sharing, despite long-standing roadblocks from the Opposition Liberals and NDP government. Transportation spokesman Adam Olsen said Tuesday the arrival of ride sharing to…
The B.C. government has sent a troubling signal that big spending, tax increases and deficits are back as the prevailing fiscal policies By Jason Clemens and Niels Veldhuis The Fraser Institute During the spring 2017 election campaign, John Horgan convinced…
Without B.C.’s revenue-neutral tax as a template, other provinces are free to indulge in foolish green fund spending orgies By Peter Shawn Taylor Contributor Canadians for Affordable Energy The dream of a revenue-neutral carbon tax is over. The notion of…
The amount of taxes extracted from working Canadians driven by “modest deficits” spiralling out of control By Gwyn Morgan Contributor Troy Media The throaty growl coming from entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers and even farmers across the country in response to Finance…
Despite the promise of yet more new programs to come, there’s actually little room in the budget for more spending By Charles Lammam & Milagros Palacios The Fraser Institute British Columbia’s new government has tabled its first budget, proposing to…