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1. Canada has completely lost its business tax advantage over the U.S.

   Many factors affect Canada’s ability to attract and retain investment, entrepreneurship, and skilled workers. Some of them—such as global swings in commodity prices—are not within the government’s direct control. But government policies ...

2. B.C. government sending all the wrong signals to investors

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, March 20, 2018 Consumer spending and a hot real estate market have helped buoy British Columbia’s economy in recent years. But they have also helped mask deep-rooted economic problems including B.C.’s dismal level of ...

3. Canada has a business investment problem—deal with it

   It’s not as if we needed more bad news about Canada’s economic prospects. But we got it last week with the latest data highlighting the country’s weak business investment. Statistics Canada released its latest survey results on ...

4. Canada asleep at the wheel on U.S. tax reform

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, December 14, 2017 Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau once famously quipped that living next to the United States “is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant.” By this he meant that developments in the U.S. often have ...

5. Election results could spell trouble for B.C.’s tax competitiveness

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, May 15, 2017 While the final outcome of B.C.’s election is far from certain, it’s worth considering what a minority government could mean for provincial tax policy. As things currently stand, a majority of MLAs headed to ...

6. Corporate tax cuts benefit all Canadians

   Globe and Mail columnist Eric Reguly recently bemoaned that the share of government revenue coming from corporate income taxes has fallen in Canada since the 1960s. Indeed, the share of federal revenue coming from corporate taxes was ...

7. Business taxes in B.C.—ball now in Clark government’s court

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, December 6, 2016 Earlier this year, the provincial government commissioned a group of experts to provide recommendations on how to make British Columbia’s business taxes more competitive and conducive to investment. ...

8. British Columbians need action, not more study, to address problems with provincial tax system

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, July 22, 2016 They say the first step to finding a solution is to identify the problem. And B.C.’s tax system represents a real problem for the province. Without more competitive tax policies, B.C. risks losing entrepreneurs ...