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Canada is not a country with a reputation for bold experimentation. However, Canadian experience demonstrates … history of sales taxation in Canada, it has taken decades of federal-provincial negotiations to produce the present … from perfect. Nonetheless, Canada has shown that not only can VATs be introduced at the subnational level but that they can …
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political channels. The most important and prominent manifestation of diversity in Canada has been the rise to dominance in the … Canada are by no means confined to Quebec. In particular, the rise of the western provinces -- particularly Alberta and … recently, since about 1990, the key central province of Ontario has also begun to separate itself to some extent from Canada as …
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institutions, we examine three aspects of Canada’s federal arrangements over the last half century. We have chosen these three … attempt to amend the Constitution Act of 1982 to satisfy the demands of Quebec, the majority francophone province in Canada …
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Recently many commentators have expressed concern about the fiscal health of Toronto and, more generally, the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Such concern is puzzling because most of the available evidence suggests that municipalities in the GTA are fiscally healthy. Over the past decade, for...
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the regional incidence of federal budgets in Canada, considering both aggregate results and some specific federal …
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A decade ago, several Canadian provinces replaced the retail sales taxes by value-added taxes. This paper estimates the effects of this tax substitution on consumer prices in the reforming provinces. Consistent with theory, we find that the resulting effective tax rate changes were shifted...
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