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1. Equalization allows Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to pass up jobs, income, and tax revenues

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, New Glasgow Daily News, and Red Deer Advocate Dec 23, 2014 Canada’s federal equalization program is motivated by good intentions. However, the program has unintended consequences, and creates perverse ...

2. New Brunswick ignores neighbour’s energy success

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant, seems poised to follow through on a campaign promise to institute a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. News reports suggest he’ll implement that moratorium before ...

3. Want smarter government? Focus it

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Oct 4, 2014 Murray Smith, a former Alberta cabinet minister in the Ralph Klein government, the one that privatized government liquor stores and licence registries in 1993, once told me about a side benefit of such ...

4. New Brunswick ignores energy success up north and in Pennsylvania

     In the recent New Brunswick election, an unremarkable engineering activity apparently took front and centre: hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking. The outgoing premier, David Alward, was clearly in favour of fracking. He ...

5. Memo to politicians: Imitate the Fathers of Confederation

   Back in Canada’s pre-Confederation days, one selling point for uniting the then-disparate British provinces was to drop existing barriers to commerce. The hope was for a country with a free-flow of trade and services in which all could potentially prosper ...

6. Canadian oil can make the world a safer place

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal Given Canada's proximity to the United States, we tend to take our peace and security for granted. This comfortable distance from most of the world's violence has also led us to underestimate ...

7. Not your grandmother's civil disobedience

   Appeared in the Huffington Post Activists in British Columbia have responded to the National Energy Board's approval of the Northern Gateway oil pipeline with threats of illegal activism reminiscent of the 1990s. Greenpeace spokesman Mike Hudema, for ...

8. Rescue Canada's poorest provincial economies: Allow fracking

   Appeared in the National Post The recent native protests in New Brunswick against proposed hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') are not only devoid of facts but harm the potential for prosperity and lower personal taxes. Add in the anti-fracking ...

9. Canada is a country, not a set of provincial fiefdoms

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times Colonist and Winnipeg Free Press When Christy Clark recently asserted British Columbia didn’t need the federal government and also said “we don't need Alberta,” the B.C. premier ...

10. Free markets are not the property of the Anglosphere

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald In the debate over whether the partially state-owned energy company, China’s CNOOC, should be given the go-ahead by Ottawa to take over Calgary-based Nexen, there is the danger that the discussion will be cast in an ...