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Ontario Budget Emulates Drummond
Perhaps the most striking feature of today’s Ontario budget is how close it comes to last month’s Drummond report. Drummond’s preferred scenario for 2017-18 was $134.7 billion of provincial…
Ontario’s Fiscal Reality
Cup Half Empty or Half Full? Download 777.18 KB24 pages The McGuinty government has been using the report of the Commission on the Reform of…
The Unintended Consequences of Outsourcing Cleaning Work
Download 1.04 MB42 pages The City of Toronto is currently debating whether or not to privatize as many as 1000 municipal cleaning staff. This paper…
Consequences of outsourcing Toronto’s city cleaning jobs
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. Canadians were justifiably outraged when Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar, threatened its London, Ont., workers with a 50 per cent pay…
Debunking Drummond
Personal Income Tax $24.8 billion Canada Health Transfer $10.7 billion Equalization $ 2.2 billion Corporate Income Tax $ 8.9 billion Provincial Enterprises $ 4.5 billion…
Drummond, Deconstructed
In the Commission report that bears his name, and in all of his media appearances since its release, Banker Don Drummond has ably played the…
Drummond Misdiagnoses Ontario’s Economy
The Harvard International Review has posted an interview with Don Drummond. I have posted the following response: It is good Drummond confesses that his free-market policy prescriptions failed to…
McGuinty’s Business Tax Breaks
An interesting nugget in last week’s Drummond report is Table 11.1, an updated version of Table 2 from “Ontario’s Tax Plan for Jobs and Growth” (2009). It provides…
Deflating Drummond
Statistics Canada reported today that consumer prices jumped in January (by 0.4% or 0.5% seasonally-adjusted), offsetting the drop in December. As a result, the annual inflation rate is now…
Drummond: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Drummond Commission reported today. The Good While the McGuinty government prevented the Commission from considering tax rates, it proposes some sensible measures to raise revenue. Chapter 18,…
Ten Points on Recession, Deficits, and Austerity in Ontario
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Ontario’s Mining Tax Barely Scratches the Surface
Minerals Extracted Revenue Public Return Saskatchewan $ 7,084 $ 650 9.2 % Northwest Territories $ 2,033 $ 108 5.3 % British Columbia $ 7,074…
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