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  1. Trump’s TikTok move sends clear warning to Canadian companies

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 12, 2020 Last week, President Trump signed an executive order banning U.S. transactions with ByteDance, the parent company of the popular online video-sharing service TikTok, ostensibly because TikTok’s U.S. operating ...

  2. Walled from Competition: Measuring Protected Industries in Canada

    Consumers are best served by firms when the latter are exposed to the threat of competition. Absent the possibility of new firms threatening their incumbent status, established players have less incentive to cut costs and prices and improve services. The ...

  3. Canadian Foreign Direct Investment: Recent Patterns and Interpretation

    Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is a prominent feature of globalization. It occurs when an investor resident in one country acquires management control of an enterprise located in another country. FDI inflows improve the efficiency of the host ...

  4. The Flight of Capital From Canada

    A host of economic measures indicate that Canada continues to underperform when it comes to business investment, which is crucial for improving living standards and generating prosperity, according to recent research published by the Fraser Institute, an ...

  5. Ottawa must act to help restore Canadian competiveness

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Sun, October 29, 2018 As the fall economic update from the Trudeau government quickly approaches, there’s increasing anxiousness with respect to what, if any, measures the government will introduce to improve competitiveness, ...

  6. Confidence and investment collapsing in Canada—Trans Mountain is just the latest example

    Appeared in Maclean's, April 10, 2018 Contrary to the announcement that Ottawa will spend almost $300,000 to discern the reason behind the lack of investment in Canada’s energy sector, there’s actually no great mystery. Kinder Morgan’s recent ...

  7. William Watson: When will our winning-cursed governments stop subsidizing free-agent firms?

    As a lifelong sports fan I was very envious this week when Charles Lammam, director of fiscal studies at the Fraser Institute, was quoted prominently in a National Post story about why in recent years Canadian NHL teams have been ...