Alex Whalen
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The Size of Government in Canada in 2022
This bulletin measures the size of government in Canada, by province, based on total government spending as a share of the economy, as well as public sector employment as a share of total employment, between 2007 and 2022.
Stagnation in Atlantic Canada’s Private Sector: Measuring Progress 2007 to 2019
The performance of the private sector in a province or region is the foundation for that jurisdiction’s prosperity. It is the private sector, after all, that ultimately provides the resources for the government sector. For at least the two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic, Atlantic Canada’s four provinces trailed the rest of Canada on various measures of prosperity. Research has...