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1. Size of government matters for economic growth

   The Trudeau government entered office in 2015 based largely a policy agenda to expand the role of government in the economy. At the same time, however, it promised to develop and implement policies based on evidence with a focus on ...

2. Expanding government won’t help Canada’s recovery

   Enough signals have been sent by the federal government over the last few weeks for Canadians to formulate reasonable expectations about the upcoming throne speech next month and what might be included in the government’s plan for ...

3. 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 ...

4. Who's better having the money—governments or individual Canadians

   Appeared in the Financial Post, January 17, 2018 Much, if not all policy debates, ultimately boil down to a single fundamental question—is the city, province or country, and more specifically its residents, better off having more or less of their income. ...

5. Morneau’s ‘Plan for Middle Class Progress’ cuts GDP by $131 billion

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, November 2, 2016 On Tuesday, Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau released his government’s Fall Economic Statement titled A Plan for Middle Class Progress. As noted in the release, “Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced ...

6. Economic Principles for Prosperity

   Often when people talk of prosperity, they are thinking just about money. Money is a one aspect of prosperity, but only one. Prosperity also includes a robust job market where employment is available and opportunities for advancement abound, an employment ...

7. 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 ...

8. Canada's advantage; As Canada's experience in the 1990s showed, the path to economic growth lies in shrinking government, not growing it

   Appeared in the National Post This past weekend, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty encouraged the G20 countries to rapidly implement their stimulus packages, highlighting that his government provided a greater stimulus budget than the G20 countries agreed was ...

9. Ontario Prosperity, Is Best of Second Best Good Enough?

   In this study, we examine four key components of prosperity in Ontario. First, we evaluate Ontario's economic performance. Second, we present research on the relationship between the size of government in a jurisdiction and its economic performance. ...

10. The Bizarre World of BC Politics

      Last week the newly elected Premier of British Columbia made two dramatic announcements. One regarding the selection of cabinet and the second regarding major reductions in personal income taxes. The divergence in the nature of the two announcements ...