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1. Canada’s vaccine rollout continues to lag

   If Moderna had been allowed to sell its vaccines earlier, many Canadian death and illnesses may have been prevented. ...

2. Some much-needed perspective on COVID infection and death rates

   The evidence is overwhelming that government policies reduce the spread of COVID-19. Like most Canadians, I follow the recommended policies, leave home only to buy necessities and keep proper distance from others on my one-hour daily walk ...

3. Ottawa has a middle-class definition problem

   The OECD defines the middle class as anyone earning between 75 per cent and 200 per cent of median household income after tax. ...

4. Look how much foreign investment has fled Canada

   Appeared in the National Post, June 26, 2018 In March 2016, Canada’s federal Minister of Finance Bill Morneau established the Advisory Council on Economic Growth and charged it with the development of advice on concrete policy actions to help create the ...

5. Prime Minister Trudeau needs better advice—fast

   Appeared in the National Post, June 14, 2018 There’s no doubt Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s been having a hard time lately—dealing with nasty remarks from President Trump with regard to tariffs, and the fallout from the Kinder Morgan pipeline situation. ...

6. Under threat—the lucrative export of U.S. dollar notes and U.S. Treasury securities

   President Donald Trump’s policies to balance trade and increase employment will likely fail because of an iron law of international economics: If a country spends more on goods and services than it produces, the difference must be ...

7. Ending supply management will greatly benefit Canadian consumers

   In renegotiating NAFTA, President Trump wants to end Canada’s supply management system. ...

8. Personal income taxes and the capital gains tax

   Numerous studies have demonstrated the high costs imposed on economies that maintain capital gains taxes, particularly those such as Canada that are relatively small and trade-oriented. The source of these costs is that capital gains ...

9. Ottawa must deregulate to innovate, but we didn’t see that in the federal budget

   Appeared in the Financial Post, March 28, 2017 Canada’s 2017 federal budget failed to offer any plans for deregulation. This is ironic because regulations are among the most important obstacles to innovation, the holy grail of the government’s plan for ...

10. Canada might improve Olympic success by limiting range of sports

    After every Olympics, all countries assess the effectiveness of their policies used to train and select the athletes they send to the Games. Such assessment relies mostly on countries’ ranking by some simple metrics. The most widely used ...