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1. Ontario’s fiscal paradox—a balanced budget and mounting debt

   Ontario has wrapped up its 2018 pre-budget public consultations as it prepares to deliver its next provincial budget. Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa confirmed in the fall fiscal statement that Ontario’s 2018 budget will be ...

2. Quebec unemployment rate now lower than Ontario’s

   There’s a remarkable economic transformation underway in Quebec. The economy is growing and the unemployment rate is down. Indeed, Quebec’s unemployment rate (three-month moving average, seasonally adjusted) in July at 5.9 per cent is ...

3. Provincial government net debt up 89% in less than a decade

   After a lull spanning the first decade of the 21st century, it seems that provincial government debt is again on the rise. Based on figures compiled from the Federal Fiscal Reference Tables and plotted in the first chart below, total ...

4. In Ontario, the cost of doing business is high

   Jon Dwyer, the managing director of an Ontario-based bio-tech company, recently took to the CBC to express his concern that doing business in Ontario was becoming increasingly difficult. In his column, Dwyer states that rising energy ...

5. Municipal public debt in Ontario—where you live matters

   Most discussions of public debt in Ontario revolve around the provincial government’s net debt, which for 2016-17 is estimated at $317.9 billion and in per capita terms amounts to approximately $22,800. However, Canada is a federation ...

6. Ontario now a leading exporter of bad public policy

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, April 27, 2016 Ontario has historically been an engine of economic growth in Canada. Unfortunately, over the past decade poor policy decisions have helped reduce Ontario to an economic laggard and have-not province. And ...