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
June 1, 2017
The Equalization program plays an important role in the fiscal arrangements that underpin Canada’s federal system. However, the program is and will continue to be beset by problems. In this report, the Mowat Centre examines the most critical of these problems: the issues of unpredictability and unequalized fiscal capacity. Read More
February 22, 2017
Universal health care in Canada is strongly attached to Canadian values such as equity, fairness and solidarity. Read More
January 4, 2017
Ontarians have consistently contributed more to the federal government in total tax revenue than they have received in federal spending in return. Using newly-updated StatsCan data, this report undertakes a quantitative analysis of the elements of the federal government’s revenue raising and spending practices to identify which of those elements lead to net contributions or benefits to the federation, with a particular focus on Ontario. Read More
December 20, 2016
Canada’s federal and provincial governments failed to reach a long-term agreement on health care funding in Ottawa yesterday. Time will tell whether this failure represents an impasse, or just one of many rounds of negotiation to arrive at a mutually agreeable settlement. Read More
December 5, 2016
Provincial and Territorial Premiers have called on the Prime Minister for a meeting dedicated to the issue of health care funding. The call comes against the backdrop of federal plans to decrease the growth rate of federal health transfers to the provinces. Without federal action, the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) funding escalator will fall to the 3 per cent floor currently set out in federal legislation starting next year. Read More
August 16, 2016
The federal government has signalled its willingness to re-evaluate the intergovernmental framework supporting active labour market policy – the programs governments provide to help unemployed Canadians get back to work. Read More
January 20, 2016
The size of transfer payments can’t tell us if provincial governments are good fiscal managers.
December 22, 2015
On Sunday, the federal government announced the details of the major transfer payments to provinces and territories for the next year.
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March 10, 2015
This year the federal government will send $62.5 billion in transfer payments to provincial and local governments — over one quarter of the federal budget.
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