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Mark Rovere and Bacchus Barua
Canadians celebrated Tax Freedom Day on June 6th Milagros Palacios and Niels Veldhuis Read a summary of the 2011 Tax Freedom Day report, which provides a comprehensive and easily understood indicator of the overall tax burden faced by the average Canadian family.
Ontario should replace age-based drug subsidies Provinces could achieve significant savings by replacing aged-based eligibility criteria for public drug plans with means-tested eligibility for catastrophic coverage.
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Alberta heads back to the 1980s Mark Milke Alberta needs to be careful not to repeat the trend of consecutive deficits experienced by the province in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Taxing pop and butter won’t necessarily make Canadians skinny Nadeem Esmail “Fat taxes” are not the appropriate policy tool to deal with the rising prevalence of obesity and poor diet.
www.fraserinstitute.org
Fraser Forum July/August 2011
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