September 6, 2018
The federal government is currently choosing its approach on national pharmacare. New Mowat research finds that the success of any approach depends in part on how it interacts with the variety of existing provincial pharmacare programs. Read More
August 29, 2018
Cannabis use creates direct costs for governments, especially in the areas of health care and criminal justice. New analysis from the Mowat Centre shows that following legalization, there is a real risk that overall costs could increase. Read More
July 25, 2018
Over the ten years from 2007 to 2016, Ontarians paid a total of $96.3 billion more in federal taxes than they received in federal spending. In 2016 alone, that gap was $12.9 billion. This is the key finding from A Fair Fiscal Deal: Towards a more principled allocation of federal transfers, Mowat’s latest report. Read More
April 25, 2018
Governments around the world are coming to grips with the realization that growth needs to lead to more broadly-shared prosperity. There is a growing recognition that many of the benefits of globalization and free trade policies have not been broadly shared. Read More
March 28, 2018
Most Ontarians support international trade agreements and a majority of Ontarians support more rapid globalization. These are among the main findings in the latest report from Mowat’s Portraits 2017 survey series. Read More
March 6, 2018
Most Ontarians remain comfortable with current levels of immigration and with the province’s growing diversity, and there is increasing support for welcoming those fleeing conflicts. Read More
December 20, 2017
This sesquicentennial year has provided Canadians with an opportunity to celebrate their country’s achievements, to consider how it has changed and to reflect on how it needs to adapt to current and pending challenges. Read More
December 11, 2017
Provincial governments have responsibility for delivering most of Canada’s important social programs, whereas the federal government has the discretion to pick and choose how much it wants to spend to support them at any given time. This results in a fundamental imbalance in the amount of “fiscal risk” federal and provincial governments are exposed to. Read More
December 6, 2017
This paper looks at a key reason behind Canada’s persistent failure to meet its self-imposed climate change commitments, and proposes a new institution that will be important to overcoming this failure. Read More
June 16, 2017
To better align the skills of Canada’s workers with the needs its of employers, significant shortcomings with respect to labour market information need to be overcome. Read More
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