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  1. Does the minimum wage need to be raised? No: An increase hurts those it is meant to help

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, June 2008 Calls for minimum wage hikes are increasingly being heard across the country. With the best of intentions, minimum wage advocates argue that increases are needed to reduce poverty for the working poor and that it ...

  2. Fraser Forum- March 2004: Families and the State

    In this issue: BC’s Dependency-inducing U-Turn on Welfare Reform by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Sylvia LeRoy The BC government recently de-legitimized one of Canada’s most important social welfare reforms to date. It’s the poor who’ll pay. Private ...

  3. Tax and Expenditure Limitations: The Next Step in Fiscal Discipline

    Canada as a nation and its constituent provinces have travelled a difficult path over the better part of the last decade to achieve balanced budgets. It is critical for Canada and the provinces to take the next step on the continuing path towards fiscal ...