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1. Window may be opening for tax reform in Quebec

   Appeared in the Montreal Gazette “We want Quebecers to pay less tax and taxes,” said Quebec’s premier Philippe Couillard, in advance of recommendations from a special panel tasked to make the province’s tax system more competitive. The window for change ...

2. Quebec’s Tax Competitiveness: A Barrier to Prosperity

   Empirical research and history provide evidence that high marginal tax rates and uncompetitive tax policies can hurt a jurisdiction’s economic performance. This is because individuals and businesses respond by working, saving, and investing less, and by ...

3. Policing costs keep rising while crime rates fall

   Appeared in the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix and Chronicle-Journal A meeting this summer of Ontario municipalities was marked by a growing concern about the rising costs of police services in Canada, with the president of the group concluding, "It is not ...

4. Tesla parks major investment in low-tax Nevada

   Appeared in Forbes.com Business investment decisions are of course complex. Among the many factors that a company considers before deciding where to set up operations, expand, or relocate are a jurisdiction’s regulatory burden, market proximity, labour ...

5. BC deeper in debt despite claims of balanced budget

   Appeared in the Trail Daily Times “B.C. is currently on target to balance the 2014/15 budget,” declared Mike de Jong, B.C.’s finance minister while unveiling the government’s latest financial update. Understandably, many British Columbians will take de ...

6. Another report, another misleading analysis of inequality in Canada

   Appeared in the Financial Post You’d think that we live in a caste society with an exclusive few perpetually “controlling” the vast majority of wealth given the stream of media stories on a recent report from the Broadbent Institute. Headlines in the ...

7. Government monopoly over education leaves families adrift

   Appeared in The Province, Sept 2, 2014 Normally at this is the time of year many BC families would be counting down the days until school resumed. But this year is different, with the ongoing BC teachers’ union labour dispute casting a pall of uncertainty ...

8. Burger King-Tim Horton’s deal a reminder that business taxes matter

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, Guelph Mercury, and Charlottetown Guardian News that Burger King and Tim Horton’s are merging and that the new company will be headquartered in Canada has taken the business and political world by storm. U.S. ...

9. Debt interest risks crowding out government spending on other priorities

   Appeared in the Regina Leader Post and Huffington Post, Aug 25, 2014 Canadian headlines about government deficits and debt can be dizzying and hard for people to grasp. A few billion here and several billion there and the natural response is for one’s ...

10. The Cost of Government Debt in Canada

    A major theme of this year’s federal and various provincial budgets is continuing deficit spending and growing government debt. The result of recent deficits and debt accumulation is that the combined federal and provincial net debt has increased from ...