Reading Time: 3 minutes There are provincial winners and losers in the changing world of the Canada Health Transfer and the future could hold even larger discrepancies in funding
Author: Livio Di Matteo
Di Matteo specializes in public policy, health economics, public finance and economic history. He holds a PhD from McMaster University, an MA from the University of Western Ontario and an Honours BA from Lakehead University.
Income tax a wartime measure that haunts us still
Reading Time: 3 minutes In the first 50 years after Confederation, the ethos was that taxing incomes weakened Canada’s competitive position. That changed in 1917
A brief history of federal budgets from 1867-2017
Reading Time: 3 minutes Politicians who do not learn from history doom the rest of us to repeat it
Canada has more doctors and health specialists than ever
Reading Time: 3 minutes But we don’t have ways to evaluate whether increasing the specialist workforce is always the best investment of our health-care dollars
Size of government affects economic performance
Reading Time: 3 minutes The evidence suggests that there are important implications for economic growth associated with the size of government
Hasty infrastructure spending in Canada may waste tax dollars
Reading Time: 3 minutes In times of crisis, leaders shouldn’t be projecting a sense of panic
Trudeau government faces challenging economic times in 2016
Reading Time: 3 minutes Its best response to the crisis would be to ensure responsible public finances and a competitive tax environment
Liberal plan to raise top-earners’ taxes will hurt economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Poorly conceived personal income tax changes could result in the loss of more entrepreneurial high-income earners
Prioritizing key to successful infrastructure spending
Reading Time: 3 minutes Otherwise it could lead to a debt-financed spending spree of epic proportions
Kathleen Wynne playing a dangerous game
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wynne should be running the province not trying to fix the federal election