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1. Unemployment rate doesn’t tell full story of Ontario’s economy

   According to Statistics Canada, Ontario’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.8 per cent in April, its lowest level since January 2001. The drop puts Ontario well below the national average, which shrank by 0.2 percentage points to 6.5 per ...

2. How Compensation Spending Consumes Provincial Government Resources in Ontario

   This report measures the growth in provincial government compensation spending in Ontario and how such spending has consumed government resources from 2005/06 to 2013/14 (latest year of available data). Over the period, increases in compensation spending ...

3. Government compensation outpacing the private sector in Ontario

   Appeared in the Financial Post The Ontario government is currently neck deep in negotiations with public sector unions including those representing bureaucrats, teachers, and police officers. On compensation costs, finance minister Charles Sousa said: “We ...

4. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Ontario

   Ontario’s serious fiscal challenges are well documented. As the provincial government struggles to eliminate its deficit and rein in growing government debt, it has signaled that managing public sector compensation (which totals over half of its program ...

5. Ontario's minimum wage hike is evidence-free policy

   Appeared in the Huffington Post After several months of labour activists putting pressure on the Ontario government to increase the provincial minimum wage, Premier Kathleen Wynne finally succumbed and announced that she will increase it to $11 per hour ...

6. Government legislated pay doesn't help the most vulnerable workers

   Appeared in the Financial Post What a world it would be if governments could simply legislate higher pay for low-wage workers without any ill effects. But we live in the real world and here public policy should be informed by evidence, not just good ...

7. To remain competitive, Ontario needs to follow Indiana and Michigan's lead

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record With Labour Day fresh in our memory and Ontario’s unemployment rate having recently increased to 7.6 per cent, the province would do well to follow Indiana and Michigan’s lead and adopt worker choice laws. Doing so ...

8. Why it pays to be a government worker in Ontario

   Appeared in the Guelph Mercury and Waterloo Region Record More than three years after the end of the recession and Ontario’s provincial government continues to struggle with deficits, which as of the last quarterly update, will likely reach a staggering ...