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1. Canada has completely lost its business tax advantage over the U.S.

   Many factors affect Canada’s ability to attract and retain investment, entrepreneurship, and skilled workers. Some of them—such as global swings in commodity prices—are not within the government’s direct control. But government policies ...

2. B.C. government sending all the wrong signals to investors

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, March 20, 2018 Consumer spending and a hot real estate market have helped buoy British Columbia’s economy in recent years. But they have also helped mask deep-rooted economic problems including B.C.’s dismal level of ...

3. Canada has a business investment problem—deal with it

   It’s not as if we needed more bad news about Canada’s economic prospects. But we got it last week with the latest data highlighting the country’s weak business investment. Statistics Canada released its latest survey results on ...

4. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

7. 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. ...