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1. Canada must tailor trade practises for post-COVID world

   The effects of COVID-19 will transform the international world order and affect Canada’s role in it. First, the meteoric rise of China, with its aspirations of world leadership and greater respect, will come to a crashing halt. Despite ...

2. Trudeau government must act now on trade, taxes as possible recession looms

   Appeared in the Moncton Times & Transcript, September 28, 2018 As Parliament resumes, Canada’s policymakers face a turbulent state of affairs as the United States and China wage an economic Cold War armed with tariffs and Ottawa continues negotiating ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. Hasty infrastructure spending in Canada may waste tax dollars

   Canada faces serious economic challenges as 2016 unfolds, and key leadership in dealing with the economic fallout of falling oil prices and slow economic growth must come from Bill Morneau, Canada’s federal minister of finance. The new ...

6. Ontario's financial woes a problem for all of Canada

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record Lost in the current flurry of Ontario’s election campaign is the one key issue facing the province, and indeed all of Canada: Ontario’s laggard economic performance is dragging down the national economy. Due to the ...