A typical Canadian family of four will pay $11,735 for public health care insurance in 2015, finds a new study released by the Fraser Institute. The study, The Price of Public Health Care Insurance, helps Canadians better understands the cost of public health care for them and their families. “Contrary to what many believe, health … Read more
Canada ranks sixth overall for its level of human freedom while the United States ranks 20th in the Human Freedom Index, released by the Fraser Institute. The index – which uses 76 indicators of personal, civil and economic freedoms to rank 152 countries around the world – is the most comprehensive freedom index so far … Read more
Transporting oil and gas by rail in Canada is a lot more risky than moving it by pipeline, concludes a new study released by the Fraser Institute. Utilizing newly compiled data from Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) and Transport Canada, the study, Safety in the Transportation of Oil and Gas, finds that the rate of occurrences (incidents … Read more
As the Ontario government moves forward with plans for a new mandatory provincial pension program, Australia’s system of forced individual retirement saving accounts could serve as a model instead of the CPP, finds a new study released by the Fraser Institute. “If Ontario insists on launching a mandatory provincial pension program, despite evidence that it’s … Read more
Canada has only seen modest increases in income inequality among families, finds a new study released by the Fraser Institute. Among Canadians families, the study finds that between 1982 and 2010, the latest year of comparable data, the share of income received by the top 10 per cent of families increased by 12.9 per cent—a … Read more
Countries with higher levels of economic freedom have happier populations, finds a new study released by the Fraser Institute. “There’s a direct link between a country’s level of economic freedom and its citizens’ life satisfaction, or happiness. Clearly, living in an economically free society has an important impact on the average citizen,” said Fred McMahon, the … Read more
When Canadians were forced to contribute more to the Canada Pension Plan in the 1990s and early 2000s, they ended up saving less voluntarily, finds a new study released by the Fraser Institute. “Calls for an expanded Canada Pension Plan, or the upcoming provincial pension plan in Ontario, often rely on the dubious claim that … Read more
The Fraser Institute released a new survey of homebuilders, entitled “New Homes and Red Tape: Residential Land-Use Regulation in BC’s Lower Mainland.” The survey finds that the District of North Vancouver and the City of Vancouver are the most regulated municipalities in the Lower Mainland and consequently the most difficult in which to build new housing. “A … Read more
Long waits for surgeries and medical treatments in 2014 cost Canadians $1.2 billion in lost income and productivity, finds a new study released by the Fraser Institute. The Private Cost of Public Queues for Medically Necessary Care notes that each of the 937,345 patients waiting for surgery last year bore an average personal cost of $1,289 … Read more
The Fraser Institute released a study titled, “Fallout from the 2007 Alberta Royalty Review Panel,” by Kenneth P. Green, Fraser Institute senior director of energy and natural resources, which warns that the Alberta NDP government’s review of that province’s energy royalty regime could serve as a deterrent to new investment in Alberta’s oil and gas industry. “If … Read more
