This new AIMS study, the first in AIMS Oil & Gas Series, outlines a win-win strategy to reduce the overall cost of equalization and put more money into the hands of the provinces in the long term. The paper’s author Ken…

After 44 years and $180-billion dollars in equalization spending (not adjusted for inflation) the Atlantic provinces are only barely more able to meet the needs of their citizens with their own revenue sources than they were when equalization was introduced…

Equalization, the centerpiece of Canada’s interprovincial redistribution system, has been significantly undermined by Ottawa’s ability and willingness to use other programs to effect further redistribution, says the latest issue of C.D. Howe Institute Commentary, released today. The 1999 quinquennial review…

New joint federal-provincial training programs funded by the employment insurance (EI) program will do little for low-skilled workers or for federal-provincial relations, says a C.D. Howe Institute Commentary released today. Much better, the study argues, would be provincial and local…