The federal government as well as the provinces provide a significant degree of financial assistance to housing each year which does not show up in their direct outlays. Instead, this assistance is in the form of favourable treatment on the tax side of the budget, so-called tax expenditures.
Read CUR's latest blog piece by Frank Clayton, our Senior Research Fellow, to find out which tenure group benefits the most from these tax expenditures provided by the federal government. The answer may surprise you.