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1. Interventionist government approach underpins SNC-Lavalin affair

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, March 19, 2019 There are essentially two competing views—though there’s never a pure version of either implemented—of how best to develop an economy. One view is that the government take an activist interventionist approach to ...

2. Lessons from the past on governance in Canada

   Appeared in the Financial Post, November 4, 2015 Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau led his Liberal Party back from third-party status in Parliament to capture a majority government, the first Liberal majority government since 2000 under former ...

3. Federal Government Failure in Canada, 2013 Edition: A review of the Auditor General's reports, 1988-2013

   The discussion of the limitations of government and subsequent government failure is wholly absent from debate in Canada where, unfortunately, we still assume that governments act benevolently and without institutional constraints. That this is not true ...

4. Spending Beyond Our Means; Sticking it to the Next Generation

   Appeared in the National Post Over the course of the past several months, outgoing Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney and Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty have repeatedly warned that Canadians are spending beyond their means and taking on too much ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. Learning from the Past: How Canadian Fiscal Policies of the 1990s Can Be Applied Today

   Learning from the Past: How Canadian Fiscal Policies of the 1990s Can Be Applied Today provides a historical overview that identifies parallels between the fiscal challenges facing Canadian governments in the 1990s and those facing governments in 2011.  ...

8. Budget like it's 1995

   Appeared in the National Post Slash or spend? Cut or conserve? The federal government will bring down its budget on March 22. What should be in it? We ask five prominent Canadian think-tanks to offer their fiscal fix for the coming year. Over the past ...

9. Government Failure in Canada, 2007 Report: A Review of the Auditor General's Reports, 1992-2006

   This publication was written to inform Canadians about the theories and insights of Public Choice Theory, to document government failure from the reports of the Auditor General, to calculate a reasonable estimate of the costs of government failure, and to ...

10. Priority One: Improve Ontario’s Investment Climate

    Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen One of the most notable observations from the race for Queens Park was the lack of meaningful discussion of how to get Ontario’s economy back on track. Ontario, the traditional economic hub of Canada, is being replaced by ...