"Canadian social programs were designed for a world in which most people graduated from high school, then found a permanent job with benefits that, barring unforeseen accidents, they would hold until they retired with a pension - all under the benevolent eye of their workplace union. In the last...

This paper has two purposes. First, it documents the historical context of MINCOME, a Canadian guaranteed annual income field experiment (1974 to 1979). Second, it uses routinely collected health administration data and a quasi-experimental design to document an 8.5 percent reduction in the...

Canadian health care spending as risen as a percent of GDP almost every year since statistics on the subject were collected. Over this time frame Canadian incomes have also risen significantly as well. Determining whether the cause of these increases is a demand-sided problem as a result of...