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1. Size of government matters

   In one way or another every public policy debate ultimately comes down to a decision between whether resources are best kept by the workers, entrepreneurs and businesses that create them versus government extracting resources through ...

2. A brief federal budget history—Canada, 1867-2017

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, March 13, 2017 The upcoming federal budget comes in Canada’s 150th year—an important milestone for what is perhaps the most successful country in the world. The evolution of federal finances since 1867 ...

3. A Federal Fiscal History: Canada, 1867-2017

   The Canadian federation’s 150th anniversary is an important milestone for a country that has become one of the most successful countries in the world. Canada’s economic evolution from a rural agricultural nation to a modern, highly urbanized, service ...

4. Canada, Land of Smaller Government: Its corporate income tax rate is 18% and falling. America's is 35%

   Appeared in the Wall Street Journal When Americans look to Canada, they generally think of an ally, though one dominated by socialist economic policies. But the Canada of the 1970s and early 1980s—the era of left-wing Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau—no ...

5. Canadian Public Spending: The Case for Smaller More Efficient Government

   This study reviews the consequences of the exceptional rise in government spending in Canada that was sustained from World War II through the early 1990s. Our interest is in the economic impact and otherThis study reviews the consequences of the ...