<time datetime="2024-09-12T05:00:00-04:00">September 12, 2024</time>

Study in Brief

  • Business investment in Canada has been so weak since 2015 that capital per worker is falling.
  • A longstanding gap…
<time datetime="2024-09-05T00:00:02-04:00">September 5, 2024</time>

The Study in Brief

  • The federal government’s expenditure management system (EMS) has many desirable characteristics…

<time datetime="2023-04-05T06:00:00-04:00">April 5, 2023</time>

Executive Summary

Public-sector investment funds (especially pension funds) have been increasingly pooled and managed by investment…

<time datetime="2023-03-23T11:39:24-04:00">March 23, 2023</time>

Ottawa Needs a New Approach to Fiscal Policy

The current federal fiscal…

<time datetime="2022-12-06T00:00:01-05:00">December 6, 2022</time>

The Study In Brief

The onset of the pandemic saw a high degree of coordination between our monetary and fiscal authorities. The…

<time datetime="2021-06-01T15:49:30-04:00">June 1, 2021</time>

Manitoba’s Soaring Land Transfer Taxes Need Reform

  • In “Damage Control: Options for Reforming the Land Transfer Tax in Manitoba,” authors Bev Dahlby and Jack Mintz…
Op-Ed
Published in The Globe and Mail.  Canada is facing a demographic shift that will put immense strain on our health care system and public finances. We currently have about three working-age (18-…
Intelligence Memos
To: Canadian fiscal observers From: Munir A. Sheikh Date: January 31, 2024 Re: Cure for the Public Debt Pandemic: An Economic-Principles-Based Fiscal Anchor Governments across the…
Op-Ed
In its November Fall Economic Statement, the federal government presented a long-term projection that shows its debt ratio — that is, federal debt divided by GDP — declining smoothly over the…