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1. Is there any wonder why Ontario is in the state it's in?

   Appeared in the Financial Post As Ontario continues to undermine its economic future with growing debt, the province does not receive near the critical scrutiny it should from the media and financial markets. In reading CIBC World Markets’ latest Economic ...

2. Federal Liberals reject the party's successful pragmatism of the 1990s

   Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, New Brunswick Telegraph Journal and Flin Flon Reminder The policy direction of the Liberal Party of Canada and its leader Justin Trudeau, as evidenced by the speeches, motions, and debate at the recent national party ...

3. BC's boring, balanced budget anything but

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Tuesday’s BC budget, which Finance Minister Michael de Jong called boring, balanced, should have set out an ambitious agenda for the next four years. After all, few governments embark on significant reform in the later years ...

4. It's not our problem; Ontario Liberals kick deficit can down the road

   Appeared in the Financial Post The May 2 minority Liberal budget is a politically expedient document that likely avoids an election but unfortunately fails to tackle Ontario's looming fiscal crisis. The longer the province waits, the more difficult ...

5. Not Your Prairie NDP

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Too often in politics, particularly during election campaigns, citizens conflate political brands with policy. That is, too often we make assumptions about the policies of political parties based on a perception rather than ...

6. Wynne's chance to break from the past

   Appeared in the Financial Post With the Ontario government expected to soon introduce a new budget and the province continuing to head towards its own fiscal cliff, Premier Kathleen Wynne has a chance to make a clean break from the fiscal mismanagement of ...

7. The stimulus spending never stopped

   Appeared in the Financial Post The key litmus test for the Harper government’s 2013 budget was always going to be how realistic it was with respect to achieving a balanced budget by 2015-16. The governing Tories have staked both their economic and ...

8. The Conservatives' no-cut budget

   Appeared in the Financial Post There it was on the front page of The Globe and Mail: $5.2-billion [in] total spending cuts. The Toronto Star screamed: Tories slash spending in fiscal overhaul, while CTV proclaimed: Budget to cut spending nearly $6-billion ...

9. Cut $10-billion now; Flaherty should drop entire departments and programs

   Appeared in the Financial Post On Monday, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty held his traditional pre-budget consultation with a number of private-sector economists, who all appear to be predicting improved growth in the Canadian economy for the coming year. ...

10. Provinces follow Ottawa's pattern of rosy revenue forecasts and unrealistic spending projections

    Appeared in the Financial Post When Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced last week that the Conservative government will miss its target for balancing the budget, he confirmed something that should be obvious to all students of recent Canadian economic ...