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1. Trudeau government's economic update does little to improve Canadian competitiveness

   Appeared in the Financial Post, November 22, 2018 Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau (pictured above) unveiled the Trudeau government’s economic update on Wednesday, which it had signaled would include measures to address Canada’s lack of ...

2. Canada has fallen asleep and must wake up—fast

   Appeared in the National Newswatch, November 19, 2018 In the classic Aesop's Fable, a slow-moving tortoise challenges a self-assured hare to a race. Immediately, the hare jumps out in front and becomes overconfident. He naps halfway through the race ...

3. Canada asleep at the wheel on U.S. tax reform

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, December 14, 2017 Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau once famously quipped that living next to the United States “is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant.” By this he meant that developments in the U.S. often have ...

4. There’s a right way and a wrong way to attract businesses to your city

   Vancouver, along with dozens of other cities, is trying to attract Amazon’s second North American headquarters. ...

5. Business taxes in B.C.—ball now in Clark government’s court

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, December 6, 2016 Earlier this year, the provincial government commissioned a group of experts to provide recommendations on how to make British Columbia’s business taxes more competitive and conducive to investment. ...

6. William Watson: The business of Canada depends on business

   U.S. President Calvin Coolidge said in 1925 that “The chief business of the American people is business,” a line often mis-quoted as “The business of America is business.” No Canadian prime minister has ever dared be so pro-business. ...

7. Tesla parks major investment in low-tax Nevada

   Appeared in Forbes.com Business investment decisions are of course complex. Among the many factors that a company considers before deciding where to set up operations, expand, or relocate are a jurisdiction’s regulatory burden, market proximity, labour ...

8. Burger King-Tim Horton’s deal a reminder that business taxes matter

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, Guelph Mercury, and Charlottetown Guardian News that Burger King and Tim Horton’s are merging and that the new company will be headquartered in Canada has taken the business and political world by storm. U.S. ...