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FRASER UPDATE
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Latest Research Sep 23-29, 2019
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Ontario lost nearly 170,000 manufacturing jobs since 2007; Michigan added 47,000 above pre-recession levels
The Power of Comprehensive Policy Reform: Lessons for Ontario from Michigan finds that even though both jurisdictions were hard hit during the 2009 recession, Michigan has enjoyed a much more successful recovery in the past 10 years. Crucially, Michigan’s economic success coincides with substantial policy reforms, implemented in 2011, that lowered business taxes, increased worker choice, slowed government spending and reduced state debt.
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Recent Commentary and Blog Posts
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High marginal tax rates aren’t just for ‘the rich’ ([link removed])
(Appeared in the Toronto Sun) by Ben Eisen.
This isn’t being lazy, it’s being rational.

Trans Mountain takes yet another hit ([link removed])
(Appeared in the Edmonton Sun) by Kenneth P. Green.
Over decades of moving oil-by-tanker, B.C. has never had a tanker spill offshore.

What The Handmaid’s Tale can teach us about gender inequality ([link removed])
by Rosemarie Fike. 
In countries where men and women’s economic rights are equally protected under the law, women live on average about nine years longer.

Media bailouts will do more harm than good ([link removed])
by Vincent Geloso.
Advertisers pay for reaching groups of consumers that will buy their products.

How the Ford government can promote economic freedom in Ontario ([link removed])
(Appeared in the Ottawa Sun) by Ben Eisen.
Economic freedom benefits people throughout the income spectrum.

B.C. First Nation’s prosperity offers important lessons to other First Nations ([link removed])
(Appeared in the Globe and Mail) by Tom Flanagan. 
Westbank took investment decisions away from chief and council and gave them to a more independent board.

Oil’s rising—Alberta, bank those resource revenues ([link removed])
(Appeared in the Calgary Sun) by Kenneth P. Green. 
Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund is now worth US$1 Trillion.

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