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1. Business ambition must be a Canadian value

   The only truly pro-business policies foster competitive markets and produce a more level playing field. ...

2. Governments across Canada hurting business investment

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, October 24, 2017 The importance of business investment to economic growth is widely acknowledged. Investment boosts productive capacity and embodies new technologies that raise productivity and living standards over ...

3. Business Investment in Canada Falls Far Behind Other Industrialized Countries

   This bulletin provides an overview of business investment in Canada: why investment is important, its recent performance, and how it compares with other industrialized countries. Business investment is central to long-term economic growth and ...

4. Dependence on housing leaves Ontario economy vulnerable

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, July 5, 2017 Ontario traditionally has been Canada’s engine of growth. However, over the past decade it has slipped to “have not” status that receives equalization payments. While housing recently has provided a temporary ...

5. Ontario's One Cylinder Economy: Housing in Toronto and Weak Business Investment

   Economic growth in Ontario has lagged Canada since 2003, reducing the province to ‘have-not’ status within Confederation. One theme that runs throughout the paper’s analysis is the persistent weakness of Ontario’s manufacturing sector, where output has ...

6. Lack of private-sector business investment helps drive Ontario's poor economic performance

   The previous two posts based on Philip Cross’ recent study Ontario: No Longer a Place to Prosper focused on economic growth and GDP, and the province’s poor performance in growing incomes and creating private-sector jobs. This final blog ...