End the wellness checks? Up here in Canada we have been hearing media story, after media story about how the Police are shooting people during “wellness checks”. The reality is that these cases are unbelievably rare. Police across this country get tens of thousands of wellness check calls a year. The vast majority of these calls end exactly as you’d expect them to. The police show up, check on a person and in some cases help them seek additional care.

What is a Fair Share One thing we often hear is the call to have the wealthy pay ‘their fair share’. Well lets break down how many Canadians there are and what an equal representation of taxation would look like, and perhaps we can derive some real numbers. For the purpose of this I am going to be focused on income taxes. This is mainly because we have the best numbers for it, and because other taxes such as sin taxes are very nebulous, and often not on items required in Canada.

Basic Income Basic income, the dream of the poor to steal from those who work Basic income has again been in the news and all over social media with the rise of the COVID-19 pandemic. For some people they’ve taken this as a sign that a basic income will work. However they are sadly mistaken. Looking at the numbers alone, to run the CERB for only 4 months it’s going to cost more than $57 billion dollars.