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1. Ontario lagging behind neighbours on key economic measures

   Between 2000 and 2019, New York's average per-person GDP growth more than doubled Ontario's growth rate. ...

2. Ontario needs growth and prosperity in all regions—not just two big ones

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, November 27, 2019 Last week the Fraser Institute published a study on the economic performance of Atlantic Canada, which found that economic production (on a per-person basis) in the region was only 83.5 per cent of the average ...

3. Dear Premier Ford, please look forward—not back

   Appeared in Maclean's, September 26, 2018 This week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford created a committee to investigate the previous Liberal government’s handling of provincial finances including its accounting methods. Premier Ford compared Liberal ...

4. The Wynne budget—more spending, more fiscal problems, more debt

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, March 29, 2018 Finance Minister Charles Sousa has tabled Ontario’s 2018 budget. And above all else, the pre-election document is characterized by a complete absence of fiscal discipline and dangerous willingness to saddle ...

5. Will the next PC leader maintain Brown’s Wynne 2.0 platform?

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, January 31, 2018 It’s not yet clear who will lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario into the next election. The party first decided to hold a full-blown leadership race, but there’s been recent pushback from party ...

6. Wynne government reopens spending tap, exposes province to more risk

   Appeared in the Financial Post, May 10, 2017 The Wynne government recently tabled Ontario’s first balanced operating budget in a decade. While it’s good to see the province finally bring its annual operating expenditures in line with revenues, there are ...

7. Ontario in the grip of short-term policy thinking

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, March 8, 2017 Public policy decisions are frequently biased towards short-term thinking. Governments make decisions that will affect people’s lives for decades, but must operate within a political context in which the next ...

8. Ontario must prepare for slowdown in growth of federal transfers

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, February 22, 2017 The Wynne government expects to finally balance Ontario’s operating budget next year (with some help from accountants on how the province treats its pensions). It would be a big mistake, however, to think the ...

9. Ontario’s fall statement—if this plan is ‘working,’ what does failure look like

   Appeared in the Financial Post, November 15, 2016 The Wynne government just released its fall statement—essentially an update on the state of Ontario’s economy and finances. After a brief preamble about the challenges imposed by the 2008/09 recession, the ...

10. Ontario has no credible plan to shrink its debt burden

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, May 25, 2016 It’s no secret Ontario’s debt burden is growing quickly. In fact, Ontario has piled up debt significantly faster than any other province since 2003. Troublingly, the government has not presented a serious plan for ...