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Fiscal Problems, Taxation Solutions: Options for Reforming Canada's Tax and Transfer System

The fourth paper in the Mowat Centre's Fiscal Transfers Series examines options for reforming Canada's tax and transfer system to help governments achieve their fiscal goals.
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Workers Left Outside the EI Umbrella: Explanations and a Simple Solution

This paper analyzes who is left out of EI program and recommends a new Temporary Unemployment Assistance program to plug the gaps in coverage, deepening and expanding upon a core argument of the Mowat Centre EI Task Force.
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Alberta and Equalization: Separating Fact from Fiction

Fiscal federalism in Canada, as in other federations, is rather complex and takes some effort to understand. This paper is an attempt to sort out some of the main features, identify important facts, and contribute to a clearer understanding of the policy issues of fiscal federalism.
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Equalization at Arm's Length

Although we can't take the politics out of equalization entirely, we can do a better job reducing the level of territorial conflict surrounding it. The second paper of the fiscal transfers research series argues that Canada needs a new approach to governing equalization.
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Expenditure Need: Equalization's Other Half

This is the first paper in a Mowat Centre series exploring options for reforming the Canadian transfer system. It argues that the current approach to Equalization turns a blind eye to the differences in expenditures that provinces must make to provide comparable levels of public services.
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Making It Work

The final recommendations of the Mowat Centre EI Task Force.
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