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1. Understanding the significance of the Kinder Morgan decision to suspend the Trans Mountain pipeline

   The decision by Kinder Morgan to suspend all non-essential spending on its Trans Mountain pipeline despite regulatory approval is yet another sign of the significant problems in Canada’s energy sector and indeed our broader economy. Fraser Institute ...

2. B.C. LNG breakthrough—a flicker of hope in Canada’s gloomy energy climate

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, March 22, 2018 The government of British Columbia announced this week it will provide a large tax incentive to promote the building of a natural gas liquefaction and export facility in Kitimat. The announcement is a bright ...

3. Fraser Forum- May/June 2013: Value for money in health care: Varying performances across Canada

   In this issue: Balanced budget in BC comes with short- and long-term pain by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Milagros Palacios BC Liberals have put an emphasis on balancing the budget over the next year. BC’s Prosperity Fund: A good idea if designed ...

4. Remove the Roadblocks to Highway Tolls

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail, 23 August 2004 Ontario’s Public Infrastructure Minister David Caplan has come under fire for releasing a plan to repair Ontario’s aging and increasingly decaying infrastructure using public-private-partnerships (P3s) and ...

5. 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 ...

6. BC Rail Privatization should go forward

   Appeared in The Province, January 20, 2004 Anti-privatization crusaders are seizing on the recent scandals in the BC legislature to argue against the planned privatization of BC Rail. Transportation Minister Judith Reid, however, says that the BC Rail ...

7. Successful Olympic Bid Reconfirms Necessity of Tolled Highways

     The successful 2010 Olympic bid presents an extraordinary opportunity for Vancouver, Whistler, and the Province of British Columbia. But if we are to reap the benefits that hosting the Olympic Games can offer, it is critical that all those involved in ...

8. Tolls, Not Taxes, Should Fund Road Costs

   An edited version appeared in the Province, 10 June 2003 Proposals to privatize the Coquihalla highway have set off an avalanche of opposition, particularly in Kamloops, the end-point of the highway. People are upset and rightly so. After all, why should ...

9. For Whom the Roads Toll

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, April 28, 2003 On Wednesday, B.C. Transportation Minister Judith Reid stated that the Sea-to-Sky Highway would not become a toll highway. The justification for this decision is that “there is no free, direct alternative ...

10. Tolls, Not Taxes

    Appeared in The Vancouver Sun, February 17, 2003 British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell has proposed raising gasoline taxes by 3.5 cents per liter in order to fund transportation projects in rural B.C. The upgrades include improvements to Trans-Canada ...