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  1. Rhetoric vs. reality—the Trudeau government’s dismal record on business investment

    Appeared in the Financial Post, February 11, 2021 Business investment—in factories, machinery, equipment and new technologies—remains vital to the prosperity of any country. “If businesses don’t invest, to create great jobs,” said former Trudeau finance ...

  2. Trudeau government must improve investment climate to ‘build back better’

    Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, September 24, 2020 Among other themes, last Wednesday’s throne speech doubled down on the “Build Back Better” theme Prime Minister Trudeau first used last month when he said, “We need to reset the approach of this government ...

  3. Things the Liberal government knows that just ain’t so—Canada is the ‘best place to invest’

    Appeared in the Hill Times, March 11, 2020 Despite all the evidence, Prime Minister Trudeau, his government (and those around them) really believe their policies have made Canada the best place to invest. For example, the government's new Invest in ...

  4. What happens when Canada ignores incentives and competitiveness

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 5, 2019 Anecdotes of Canadian firms leaving or diverting investments outside the country have continued unabated from 2018. The federal and many provincial governments seem reluctant to acknowledge this ...

  5. The finance minister said what? Part 2

    Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau (pictured above) recently appeared on BNN Bloomberg and made a number of incredibly worrying statements indicating that he (and the federal government) are either wholly misunderstanding the ...

  6. The finance minister said what?

    Coming out of an emergency cabinet meeting earlier this week, ostensibly called to deal with the watershed announcement that Kinder Morgan was halting all “non-essential” spending on its Trans Mountain pipeline despite regulatory and ...

  7. Trump reforms lay bare Canadian policy missteps

    Prime Minister Trudeau has stated unequivocally that he won’t reduce Canadian taxes to remain competitive. ...

  8. Is Canada the World's Best Place to Invest?

    Appeared in the Financial Post, July 23, 2003 Is Canada really the world’s best place to invest? The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) –a division of The Economist magazine—thinks so. According to a recent survey by the EIU, Canada ranks first out of 60 ...