The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is pleased to announce the launch of a new report in to the state of provincial government finances across the country. Called Responsible Budgeting, the report, and accompanying interactive website, analyse the 2013 budgets for...
Taxation
A budget that’s balanced
Finance Minister Jennifer Howard seeks advice for the 2014-15 provincial budget. Does she truly want advice, or is the offer made to provide the illusion that government listens to taxpayers? In the 2011 election, the NDP pledged no tax increases. Then it extended the...
Second-quarter financials alarming
Based on Finance Minister Jennifer Howard's recent update on her government's financial situation, taxpayers should be alarmed. Despite the unexpected tax and fee hikes of the last two years, she not only expects a deficit of close to $500 million for the NDP...
More To Do In Saskatchewan
A recent report by the Fraser Institute on economic freedom across all 60 Canadian provinces and US states, has ranked Alberta first, and Saskatchewan right behind in second place. This news received significant media coverage in Saskatchewan and across North America...
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
David Henderson, Economist
David Henderson, the author of Canada’s Budget Triumph, was interviewed August 10, 2011 during a recent visit to Winnipeg.
Controlling National Expenses: Canada’s Budget Triumph
Professor David Henderson tells the story of how Canada regained control of its spending the 1990s, and explains that even severe deficit problems can be resolved through effective cuts to government spending and without recurring to major tax increases.
Media Release – A Budget Triumph From Canada’s Recent Past
Professor David Henderson tells the story of Canada’s triumph over budget deficits in the 1990s, and explains that even severe deficit problems can be resolved through real cuts to government spending and without major tax increases.
Media Release – Reducing the HST Tax Rate for Ontario and British Columbia: It Benefits Families and Increases Voter Support
This study measures the effect of moving from the old provincial sales tax (PST) to the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario and in British Columbia, assuming that the sales tax rates are reduced.
Effect of Reducing the HST Tax Rate by Two Percentage Points on Average Households: The Case for Ontario and British Columbia
This study measures the effect of moving from the old provincial sales tax (PST) to the new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) in Ontario and in British Columbia, assuming that the sales tax rates are reduced.
Birth of a Boom: Saskatchewan’s Dawning Golden Age: by Frontier’s David Seymour
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Why U.S. Spending Needs a Swedish Massage
From Globe and Mail In a book published last year, Swedish economists Andreas Bergh and Magnus Henrekson affirmed that, as a general rule, every 10-percentage-point increase in the size of government in wealthy countries reduces economic growth - by as little as 0.5...
BC Residents Could Save With 10% HST: And they stimulate the economy in the process
The new Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) rate in British Columbia would bring tax savings to BC residents for years to come, and have a positive influence on economic development through export stimulus.
Afraid of 2012? Remember the Budget of 1995: While the federal spending deficit today is almost identical to what the Liberals faced in 1995, the civil service should relax. The situations are fundamentally different.
The 1995 Liberals had no choice. That’s the real difference between the desperate budget of former Liberal finance minister Paul Martin and the less draconian edition due to be handed down next year by his Conservative counterpart, Jim Flaherty.