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1. More mortgage red tape could hurt homebuyers in many ways

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, October 13, 2017 Amid widespread concern about housing affordability in Vancouver and across Canada, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), the country’s safety and soundness financial regulator, ...

2. Ontario's taxpayers should not be on the hook for private pension liabilities

   Appeared in the Woodstock Sentinel-Review and Westend Weekly Of the 362 recommendations contained in recent report tabled by Don Drummond and the Ontario Fiscal Reform Commission, one that slipped under the radar was the notion of scraping Ontario’s ...

3. RIM and the separate CEO myth

   Appeared in the Financial Post As part of the change in leadership at Research In Motion Ltd., the positions of CEO and board chair have been separated. Hopefully, this change was done for the right reasons. A hasty separation of the dual CEO and board ...

4. PRPPs defeated by compliance costs

   Appeared in the Financial Post The federal government's recent introduction of legislation to enable Pooled Registered Pension Plans (PRPPs) drew the expected responses from interested parties. The financial industry expressed support, while labour ...

5. Hail speculators; Leaders denounce them, but they make hedging possible

   Appeared in the Financial Post The war on speculators is in high gear in both Europe and the United States, driven by ignorance and populist sentiment. French President Nicolas Sarkozy exemplifies the negative attitude toward speculators that is ...

6. Lack of competition means B.C. drivers forced to pay high auto insurance rates

   Appeared in the Coquitlam Now If the B.C. government is looking for a policy issue that’s sure to be a winner with voters, it need look no further than the issue of the province’s high auto insurance rates. Contrary to the myth promoted by public auto ...

7. U.K. ring-fences bad bank policy

   Appeared in the Financial Post After her presentation to the Economic Club in Toronto Monday, Julie Dickson, the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, faced one key issue in questions from the audience: Do bank regulatory reforms in foreign ...

8. Lesson from Hurricane Katrina: Eliminate Split Earthquake Insurance Coverage- Appeared in the Sudbury Star

   Appeared in the Sudbury Star Six years have passed since Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. gulf coast, killing between 1,300 and 1,500 people and causing more than $57 billion (U.S.) in insured losses. Although the peril was a hurricane, Canada’s ...

9. Forcing people to save more so they can upgrade their iPhones in retirement- Appeared in the Financial Post

   Appeared in the Financial Post The Institute for Research on Public Policy is the latest organization to publish a study with a proposal to fix Canada’s pension system. However, it’s a proposal akin to using a battering ram to swat a fly. Like many of the ...

10. Lessons for the TMX from Latin America- Appeared in the Financial Post

    Appeared in the Financial Post On May 30, the Mercado Integrado Latinoamericano (MILA) an integrated stock exchange of three Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia and Peru), will be launched. It is a development that the TMX Group, which announced a ...