Studies
Publications and research
Snapshots of selected publications
Reality Matters: Facts about automobile insurance in Canada
M Milke, Insurance Bureau of Canada, 2023
How to Make Housing Affordable in Canada
M Milke, SecondStreet.org, August 2022
The 2021 tyranny index for oil and gas
M Milke and L Kaplan, Canadian Energy Centre, May 4, 2021
Dependency on tyranny oil and gas in the G20 democracies
M Milke and V Venkatachalam - Canadian Energy Centre, November 8, 2020
The tyranny index for oil and gas
M Milke and L Kaplan - Canadian Energy Centre May 19, 2020
Internal Trade Provincial Leadership Index
M Milke, P St Onge – Montreal Economic Institute, 2019
Canadian Milk Prices Much Higher Than U. S.
M Milke – Second Street, 2019
How educational choice saved taxpayers $1.9 billion
M Milke, P MacPherson, PCE and Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 2019
Ontario vs. Quebec: Whose Finances are Worse?
M Milke, J Guenette – Montreal Economic Institute, 2018
The Carbon Market: Chasing Away Jobs and Capital Without Reducing GHGs
G Belzile, M Milke - MEI Energy Series, Montreal Economic Institute, 2018
Missing Family Dynamics: Canadian Discussions about Family Fracturing, Poverty and Inequality
M Milke – Cardus, 2018
Families and culture matter to reducing poverty
M Milke - Policy Options, 2017
Corporate welfare cash: 21st century justifications and billion-dollar bills to come
M Milke – Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 2017
M Milke – Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 2017
Political Risk: The case for ending ICBC’s Monopoly
M Milke – Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 2017
I’ll Take New England Any Day! Tax Competitiveness: New England and Atlantic Canada Compared
M Milke – Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, 2016
Are Electric Vehicle Subsidies Efficient?
G Belzile, M Milke - Montreal Economic Institute, 2017
M Milke, Y Chassin - Montreal Economic Institute, 2016
Taxpayer-Friendly City Charters
M Milke – Manning Centre, 2016
Calgary’s Taxes and Fees 2005-2015
M Milke – Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 2016
Green Energy Subsidies: Is Alberta Jumping on the Bandwagon?
Y Chassin, M Milke - Montreal Economic Institute, 2016
Fumbling the Alberta Advantage: How Alberta Squandered a Decade of High Energy Prices
M Milke, M Palacios - Fraser Institute, 2015
Ranching Realities in the 21st Century
H. Fretwell, M Milke, editors – Fraser Institute, 2015
How much did the 2009 automotive bailout cost taxpayers?
M. Milke — Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 2015
M Milke – Fraser Institute, 2015
Go West, Young Adults: The 10-year Western Boom in Investment, Jobs, and Incomes
M Milke – Fraser Institute, 2014
Post-Boom Spending in Alberta: A $41 Billion Splurge and Lost Opportunities
M Milke – Fraser Institute, 2014
Government Subsidies in Canada: A $684 Billion Price Tag
M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2014
Alberta's Double-dip Decline in Financial Assets
M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2014
Equalization, Ontario, and the politics of division
M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2014
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Equalization Policy Crutch
B Eisen, M Milke - Fraser Institute and the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, 2014
Corporate Welfare at Industry Canada Since John Diefenbaker
M Milke - Fraser Institute,2013
M Milke - Alberta Prosperity Initiative, Fraser Institute, 2013
Ever higher: Government spending on Canada's Aboriginals since 1947
M Milke - Centre for Aboriginal Policy Studies, 2013
Public Sector Pensions: Options for Reform from the Saskatchewan NDP
M Milke, G Lang - Fraser Institute, 2013
Super-sized Fiscal Federalism: How Equalization Over-serves Have-not Provinces
M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2013
Is Canada shortchanging Aboriginals?
M Milke - Fraser Forum, 2013
Canada's Food Cartels Versus Consumers.
M Milke - Fraser Forum, 2012
Corporate Welfare Bargains at Industry Canada
M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2012
Alberta's 2012 Fiscal Time Bomb: A higher deficit and a steep decline in financial assets
M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2012
The Rhetoric and the Reality of Alberta's Deficits in the 1980s, 1990s, and Now
M Milke - Fraser Institute Studies in Economic Prosperity, 2011
Lessons for Europe: how Canada dealt with its own fiscal crisis
M Milke - European View, 2011
M Milke - Fraser Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2011
Ontario's Corporate Welfare Bill: $27.7 billion
M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2011
Alberta Heads Back to the 1990s
M Milke - Fraser Forum, 2011
The Welfare State Was Always an Illusion
M Milke - Fraser Forum, 2011
Deficits, the Public Sector and the New Premier
M Milke - Fraser Forum, 2011
Canada’s Not-So-Friendly Skies
M Milke – Frontier Centre, 2010
Open Skies: What North American Can Learn from Europe
M Milke - Regulation Outlook, American Enterprise Institute, 2010
School Choice in Canada: Lessons for America
M Milke – Heritage Foundation, 2010
Is Cuba finally embracing economic freedom?
M Milke - Fraser Forum, 2010
The Real Have-Nots in Confederation: Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia
B Eisen, M Milke – Frontier Centre, 2010
Subsidizing Separatism: Public Subsidies for Political Parties
M Milke – Frontier Centre, 2009
M Milke - Fraser Forum, 2009
M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2009
What Saved the Bloc Quebecois in the 2008 Election: Public Money
M Milke – Frontier Centre, 2008
M Milke – Frontier Centre, 2008
M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2008
Corporate Welfare: Now a $182 Billion Addiction: A Fiscal Update on Business Subsidies in Canada
M Milke – Fraser Institute, 2008
M Milke – Canadian Taxpayers Federation, 2008
M Milke, J Williamson, CT Federation – 2008
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Governments
M Milke - Frontier Centre, 2008
Monopoly Insurance: Unfair at Any Price
M Milke – Frontier Centre, 2007
Europe's "open skies" policy benefits consumers.
M Milke - Fraser Forum, 2007
Corporate Welfare: A $144 Billion Addiction
M Milke – Fraser Institute, 2007
Newfoundland's Game of Economic “Chicken”
M Milke - Fraser Forum, 2007
Saving for The Future Alberta Advantage
M Milke – CGA Alberta/Alberta Chambers of Commerce, 2006
Alberta's Real Constitution: The Natural Resources Transfer Agreement In Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework, T Flanagan, M Milke - University of Alberta Press, 2005
Ending the Prohibition on Competition: The Case for Competitive Liquor Sales in British Columbia
M Milke, CT Federation – 2002
Simpler, Lower and Flatter: A Submission to the Alberta Tax Review Committee
M Milke, CT Federation – 1998
Books and chapter contributions
The 1867 Project: Why Canada Should be Cherished, Not Cancelled, M Milke, editor and contributor, 2023
The Victim Cult (U.S. edition), M Milke, 2021
Cutting Corporate Welfare in the Mid-1990s with the Chrétien-Martin Budgets, in The Budget That Changed Canada: Essays on the 25th Anniversary of the 1995 Budget, M Milke - Fraser Institute, 2020
The Victim Cult, (Canadian edition), M Milke, 2019
Ralph vs. Rachel, M Milke, 2018
Ranching Realities in the 21st Century, H. Fretwell, M Milke, editors, 2015
Tax Me I’m Canadian (Revised), M Milke, 2013
Stealth Confiscation, M Milke, 2012
A Nation of Serfs? M Milke, 2006
Alberta's Real Constitution: The Natural Resources Transfer Agreement, in Forging Alberta's Constitutional Framework, T Flanagan, M Milke, University of Alberta Press, 2005
Tax Me I’m Canadian, M Milke, 2002
Barbarians in the Garden City, M Milke, 2001
The 2021 tyranny index for oil and gas
When I first began publishing work on oil and gas nations and which ones were autocracies and dictatorships, few journalists or CEOs or politicians understood why it mattered if countries were overly dependent on energy supplies from such countries. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, most people now see the proplem more clearly. This 2021 study from Lennie Kaplan and I provides a useful glimpse of such risky dependency.
Internal Trade Provincial Leadership Index
This 2019 study from the Montreal Economic Institute examined free trade policy among the provinces. Co-author Peter St Onge and I found that Alberta had the fewest barriers to trade with Manitoba the next fewest.
There is plenty of debate about what constitutes “fair” tax policy and who should pay what proportion of the tax burden. This 2017 study for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation grounds the debate in hard data from filed tax returns, i.e., who pays what share of income tax in Canada. For example, in the tax year examined in this study, those with incomes over $100,000 accounted for 8.4% of all tax forms filed, accounted for 33.2% of all taxable income, and paid 51.8% of all federal income taxes and 54.5% of all provincial income taxes. Also, roughly one-third of tax filers paid no income tax, mostly due to low incomes.
