
Every Canadian should have a stake in our nation’s progress.
We’re a think tank and advocacy organization focused on practical solutions to Canada’s housing, affordability, and productivity challenges.
We focus on 2 key areas:
Sharing publicly created land value — to build a healthier housing market, replace harmful taxes on work and productivity, and improve affordability for all.
Sovereign wealth funds & dividends — investing natural and public wealth to give all Canadians a direct stake in our growing and automating economy.
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B.C. Land Tax Shift:
A Better Way to Tax Property
By shifting taxes off buildings and onto land, B.C. could encourage more development, reduce blight, and provide tax relief for most households.
B.C. Land Tax Shift & Rebate: Putting our greatest asset to work
By shifting taxes to land, B.C. could replace anti-productive taxes on income and property, restore housing accessibility, and provide annual household rebates of $6,500 — leaving most households better off.
Canada’s Sovereign Wealth Fund: Investing for Future Generations
Canada should have a sovereign wealth fund that invests our vast natural and public resources to benefit all Canadians and pay dividends. It would be a powerful tool to build generational wealth for all citizens, share the gains of innovation, and preserve the value of our natural commons.
A Healthier Housing System
The Brief Case for Land Value Tax in Canada
How can shifting taxes to land be a fundamental solution to address inequality, combat the housing crisis, stimulate economic growth, and promote sustainable development? This article explores the rationale, benefits, design considerations, and challenges associated with implementing an LVT in Canada.
How Does Land Value Tax Improve the Housing Market?
A primer on how LVT can promote more housing, reduce speculative demand, and fix incentives that plague our housing system. In doing so, we could eliminate income tax for over 90% of Canadians or pay dividends to every household, while making homes cheaper.
Investing in all Canadians
A Sovereign Wealth Fund for Canada
We propose a sovereign wealth fund model that invests natural and publicly created wealth to benefit all current and future generations of Canadians. A $2T fund could generate $60-$90B/year to pay dividends to Canadians, and would be comparable to existing funds in smaller economies.
Economic Rents in Canada
In our inaugural report, we estimate the amount of economic rents (unearned profits) arising from Canada’s land and natural resources at over $240B/year, enough to pay every adult $7,500/year in dividends or eliminate income tax for 98% of Canadians.

The opportunity for Canada: a healthier housing system and a future where natural and publicly created wealth is shared.
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About Us
At Common Wealth Canada, our work is rooted in the idea that natural and publicly created wealth should be publicly shared. Policies reflecting this can fix incentives driving our housing crisis, replace harmful taxes on productivity, fund dividends to every citizen, and steward our finite resources for the benefit of future generations.
Prior to Common Wealth, members of our core team launched UBI Works, a national non-profit with a mission to make basic income a key election issue in Canada and to see it implemented nationwide.
Read our Introduction to Common Weath for basic income supporters →