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1. Highly Educated Immigrants: Economic Contributions and Implications for Public Policy

   Immigration is a contentious public policy issue. Most contention, however, is about immigration by individuals with relatively limited education and there is much less skepticism about the economic benefits of highly educated immigrants to the native ...

2. Despite decades of government subsidies, Canadian innovation has waned

   Appeared in National Newswatch, January 15, 2019 The implementation and adoption of new methods of producing goods and services, along with the introduction and use of new products and new ways of organizing businesses, remain critical to improving living ...

3. Innovation in Canada: An Assessment of Recent Experience

   For decades, the Canadian federal government, as well as provincial governments, have implemented policies to promote commercial innovation. Notwithstanding, it is widely acknowledged that Canada’s innovation performance has been, and remains, relatively ...

4. Reducing drug prices in Canada might prove costly

   Proposed changes to Canada’s Patent Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) were put forward by Health Canada in December 2017 to address what Health Canada identified as a regulatory framework that falls short of its mandate to protect ...

5. Warning for Canada—government red tape burdens U.S. productivity

   The U.S. economy is enduring a dismal stretch of low productivity growth. It was recently announced that labour, measured as the total output of goods and services for each hour of labour, declined at a one per cent seasonally adjusted ...