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1. Wealth tax would make Canada’s bad situation even worse

   Canada must become more attractive and competitive for business investment and entrepreneurs, and introducing a wealth tax and/or raising the capital gains tax would make a difficult situation worse. ...

2. Canada needs more paycheque writers

   Total business investment declined by 0.2 per cent per year between 2016 and 2019. ...

3. Business ambition must be a Canadian value

   The only truly pro-business policies foster competitive markets and produce a more level playing field. ...

4. Ottawa’s ballooning debt and deficits should be major campaign issue

   Canada has the fifth-highest level of total government debt among 29 industrialized countries. ...

5. Muskrat Falls project illustrates problem with public ownership of large-scale projects

   Government officials face very different incentives than people in the private sector. ...

6. Next federal government should spur business investment to help raise living standards

   A majority of industries in Canada reduced investments in machinery, equipment and intellectual property products. ...

7. As Trudeau government tables budget, don’t be fooled by positive short-term economic news

   Between 2016 and 2019, per-person GDP grew at an average annual rate of only 0.8 per cent. ...

8. Trudeau government keeps ‘imagining’ while Canadians suffer the economic consequences

   For the 45 research projects approved, almost $100 million had been committed but not necessarily spent. ...

9. Rhetoric vs. reality—the Trudeau government’s dismal record on business investment

   Appeared in the Financial Post, February 11, 2021 Business investment—in factories, machinery, equipment and new technologies—remains vital to the prosperity of any country. “If businesses don’t invest, to create great jobs,” said former Trudeau finance ...

10. Trudeau government must create friendlier investment climate to spur COVID recovery

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 8, 2021 In advance of the Trudeau government’s upcoming federal budget, the economic recovery from the COVID recession remains the top priority. Crucially, even before the pandemic, Canada was struggling to ...