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1. National economy relies heavily on Toronto and Vancouver housing markets

   A recent Fraser Institute study showed that over the past decade, economic growth in British Columbia has heavily relied on the residential housing boom in the Lower Mainland. B.C.’s growth has been highly leveraged directly to housing ...

2. Trudeau government should cut strings on Ottawa’s ‘re-opening’ support

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, June 17, 2020 The Trudeau government plans to provide $14 billion in financial support for provincial governments across the country. However, late last week, the CBC reported a phone call between the prime minister and ...

3. Canada needs a strong Ontario now more than ever

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, July, 19, 2017 Historically, Alberta and Ontario have been engines fuelling the Canadian economy and significant net contributors to federal finances. In other words, residents of both provinces have generally sent more money ...

4. Government policies threaten economic freedom in Canada

   Appeared in the National Post, September 15, 2016 Canada ranks a remarkable fifth in the world in economic freedom, just behind Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Switzerland. The “land of the maple leaf” is far ahead of our southern neighbour, ...

5. With the resource boom over, Canada must return to proven pro-growth economic policies

   Appeared in National Newswatch, April 14, 2016 Canadians seem to have been lulled into a sense of complacency about Canada’s economic competitiveness and our overall performance compared to other industrialized countries. A likely cause is that Canada, as ...

6. Comparing Recent Economic Performance in Canada and the United States: A Provincial and State-Level Analysis

   Conventional wisdom holds that Canada weathered the global financial crisis and recession better than most industrialized countries, particularly the United States. It is certainly true that overall, Canada has performed better economically than the ...

7. Liberal spending increases drive big deficits, not a weak economy

   Appeared in the Financial Post, March 29, 2016 In advance of tabling their first budget, the Liberals conveyed a message that deteriorating government finances were the result of a weak economy. The reality of the budget is quite different from the ...

8. The typical minimum-wage earner in Canada—not who you think

   Many Canadians believe raising the minimum wage will effectively help the working poor. Central to this belief is the assumption that the typical minimum-wage earner lives in poverty. But is this really the case—who is the typical ...