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1. Ontario has fallen behind Michigan’s economy

   At least 90 per cent of net job creation in Ontario took place either in the Greater Toronto Area or Ottawa. ...

2. The Power of Comprehensive Policy Reform: Lessons for Ontario from Michigan

   In recent years, Ontario has experienced weak overall economic performance and rising public debt. Further, the province has seen its manufacturing sector—once a primary driver of growth in the province—decline substantially. By comparison, the ...

3. Ford government should heed Michigan's success

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, April 3, 2019 Whenever a new government is elected, as happened in Ontario last year, one of the most important questions is whether it will maintain the policy trajectory of its predecessor or instead chart a different policy ...

4. Why many parts of Ontario feel left behind

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, April 11, 2018 In 2017 Ontario enjoyed one of its strongest recent years of overall economic growth. The Wynne government sent out rosy press releases celebrating the province’s success. But there were two big problems with the ...

5. Ford vs. Wynne—what’s the difference?

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, March 14, 2018 Recently, Ontario politics has focused largely on personalities. And of course, personal characteristics matter. Voters have a responsibility to vet potential leaders and attempt to choose people of decency and ...

6. 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 ...

7. Ontario government’s plan—let traffic get worse

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, February 26, 2017 Much of the conversation about the Wynne government’s decision to block Toronto City Council’s plan to toll the Don Valley Parking Lot—Parkway, that is—and the Gardiner Expressway, has focused on the lost ...

8. Ontario’s plan is hardly working

   Today, the Wynne government released its fall statement—essentially an update on the state of Ontario’s economy and finances. The document’s second paragraph contains a shockingly out-of-touch sentence. It reads: “Our plan is working.” ...

9. Ontario’s fiscal update stays committed to complacency

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record There was an aura of complacency in Queen’s Park as the Ontario government released its update on the state of provincial finances. The government remains committed to its relatively passive approach of dealing with ...

10. Ontario's problem: Ontario's government

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Belleville Intelligencer, Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune, Pembroke Daily Observer, Sarnia Observer, Stratford Beacon Herald, and Owen Sound Sun Times In his recent shot at Alberta, Ontario’s premier Dalton McGuinty—who ...