Feature interviews, partnership announcements, publication releases, and milestones from INCLUSIECON's research on Canada's tax-and-transfer system. Where our work meets public conversation.
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Gillian Petit's new Canadian Tax Observatory report documents how Canada's Disability Tax Credit — originally a tax-equity measure — has been retrofitted into the gateway certification for at least 13 federal disability supports, including the Canada Disability Benefit. The report finds that 84 percent of working-age Canadians with disabilities lack DTC certification, identifies four broken links in the certification pipeline, and sets out concrete reforms.
Read the full announcement →Maytree has released an in-depth conversation with Selvia Arshad on the Marginal Value of Public Funds framework — why Canada currently evaluates social programs by their price tag alone, and what a value-based measure of public spending makes visible. The interview situates MVPF in a fiscal moment where social programs are too often framed as costs to cut, and reframes them as investments that strengthen public finances over time.
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