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Fixing Fiscal Federalism to Improve Canada’s Productivity Performance

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James Milway
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Canada’s current system of fiscal federalism, which results in very large transfers of resources from have provinces to have-not provinces, promotes consumption over investment and hence does not maximize our productivity potential. The author recommends reform of Employment Insurance towards a true insurance program with the elimination of the interprovincial social transfer aspects of the program, and a shift in the tax system from business income to consumption by reducing corporate taxes and raising the Goods and Services Tax.

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Article provided by Centre for the Study of Living Standards in its journal International Productivity Monitor.

Volume (Year): 11 (2005)
Issue (Month): (Fall)
Pages: 11-20
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Keywords: Productivity Tax Employment Insurance Unemployment Insurance Fiscal Federalism Federalism Transfers

Find related papers by JEL classification:
O47 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
H77 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism
H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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