The Globe and Mail, a Canadian national newspaper, reports concerns raised by Magna International, Inc. that proposed provincial labor legislation (the “Fair Workplaces Better Jobs Act”) could result in seriously reduced economic competitiveness for Ontario, Canada’s...
The latest Statistics Canada data indicates that people are leaving Toronto and Montréal in large numbers since the 2011 census. Even so, both metropolitan areas continued to grow through the 2016 census as a result of net international migration and the natural...
Talk continues of the potential for a housing bust in Toronto. Through the end of March, house prices had had increased 33 percent in a year. Bank of Canada Governor Steven Poloz noted that "There’s no fundamental story that we could tell to justify that kind of...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has today released "Restrictive Land-Use Regulation: Strategies, Effects and Solutions," a new report by Wendell Cox, a senior fellow with the Frontier Centre. The report evaluates currently in-vogue housing regulation strategies...
A few weeks ago, Albertans voted to reduce the inequities in the federal equalization program. The deficit between the dollars that leave to and come back from Ottawa has recently been as high as $27 billion in one year. During times of crisis, it feels like salt in...
One of the most widespread economic myths is that inflation—the reduced purchasing power of a currency—is a win for a nation, a sign of a booming economy. For the privileged classes in government and with initial access to monetary expansion, it is a win. For everyone...
This does not mean our goal is for all Americans to be homeowners.
Frontier Centre in the media from the Times & Transcript (Moncton).
Frontier Centre in the media from the Vancouver Sun.
Why overpriced housing will become a liability as the workforce shrinks.
Unaffordable housing, demographic shifts, and internal migration may be setting up a perfect storm for some parts of Canada over the coming decades. If young workers are repelled from a jurisdiction by unaffordable housing they won’t be around to pay taxes, or buy housing either.
Frontier releases the “Gold Standard” measure of housing affordability in Canada.
The latest edition of the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey puts Canadian housing affordability in perspective amongst 325 housing markets world wide.
Media Release for the 7th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey.
I attended an all-candidates forum in Lethbridge, Alberta recently. Lethbridge is having a by-election due to the unfortunate death of a councillor elect shortly after being elected. Our community is having a by-election in early February to fill this vacancy. At a...