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1. 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 ...

2. 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. ...

3. 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 ...

4. In Defence of the Euro and Angela Merkel

   Appeared in the National Post It is impossible to know how the latest Greek tragedy will end, but one thing is clear. If the new government ends fiscal austerity, reverses recent reforms and exits from the Euro zone, Greece will again become the economic ...

5. What Piketty Misses

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is a global best seller that has attracted more reviews from academics and public intellectuals than any other economics book in recent memory. But none ...

6. Sensibly Rational Policies to deal with Environmental Risks

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Trail Daily Times and New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal BC Premier Christy Clark’s demand for payments in return for permission to ship oil across BC lands is ill advised. It does not matter whether this payment takes the form ...

7. Beware the hidden costs of bike sharing programs

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun The High Priests of the Green Religion in Vancouver City Hall are about to please their supporters with another innovation that will save Mother Earth from the users of automobiles who poison the atmosphere with carbon ...

8. It's All About Saving Lives?(2)

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun The unions must use a template every time a government announces that it will ax one public service and replace it with one that saves labour and money. We see his again with the debate in Vancouver about closing the ...

9. It's All About Saving Lives?

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun The unions must use a template every time a government announces that it will ax one public service and replace it with one that saves labour and money. We see this again with the debate in Vancouver about closing the ...

10. A population of 100 million comes with a price; Are Canadians willing to pay it?

    Appeared in the National Post, June 2012 A recent series of articles in the Globe & Mail suggested Canada should double its annual intake of immigrants to 500,000 with the goal of raising the country's population to 75 million in 50 years and 100 ...