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The CCPA’s Ontario Office specializes in provincial and municipal issues. We deliver original, independent, peer-reviewed, non-partisan research.
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There is No Case for Privatizing Hydro One
A Critical Assessment of the “Business Case” for Abandoning Public Ownership and Control of Ontario’s Most Strategic Asset
Prominent economists challenge rationale for privatizing Hydro One
(Toronto) In a report released today, three prominent economists throw cold water on the “business case” that the provincial government has offered for privatizing Hydro…
Health Spending in Ontario
Bleeding Our Hospitals Download 645.39 KB13 pages
No mystery behind crisis in Ontario hospitals: Study
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The claim that health spending in Ontario is out of control has no factual basis, according to a…
Ernie Eves’ short life as a departure from Mike Harris
It was quite a let-down from Thursday to Friday of last week, as Thursday’s feel-good words from the Ernie Eves Government in the Throne Speech…
University Funding Cuts
Shortchanging Ontario Students Download 105.18 KB14 pages Declining Levels of Support Since the election of the Conservative Government in 1995, university finance has been radically…
University funding cuts
Shortchanging Ontario students CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT The Ontario government’s operating grants to the province’s universities, allowing for inflation and enrolment growth,…
CCPA report challenges Tory budget deficit fears
A report from the Ontario Alternative Budget Working Group released today challenges the key assumption underlying the Eves Government’s claim that the province is on…
Disastrous Electrical Power Privatization
Ontarians Will Pay a Steep Price for Squandering Hydro Wealth Download 52.63 KB
Toronto’s Revenue Crisis
A Made at Queen’s Park Problem That’s Only Going to Get Worse Download 376.01 KB7 pages
Cut the rhetoric, not health care
It is an old rule of persuasion: people are rarely receptive right away; you have to work at making them so. If you want to…
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