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1. Competitiveness should be a top priority for finance ministers

   Serious concerns about the country’s competitiveness hovered above talks this week at the federal-provincial finance ministers meeting in Ottawa. Which is not surprising. Canada has become a less appealing place to do business due to ...

2. Incentives matter for a better economy for Canadians

   Appeared in Maclean's, May 31, 2018 The last week has seen numerous assessments, mostly critical of the federal government’s decision to purchase the Trans Mountain pipeline. And yet, a key aspect of the decision—this government’s dismissive view of ...

3. The finance minister said what? Part 3

   This third installment in what has unfortunately become an ongoing series of blog posts examining statements by Canada’s federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau (pictured above) focuses on recent comments made during testimony before the ...

4. 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 ...

5. Canada’s health-care system fails to account for senior migration

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record, November 23, 2017 The recent meeting of G-7 health ministers should provide a wake-up call for policymakers about Canada’s ailing health-care system. Compared to many of our G-7 counterparts, our system is fraught ...

6. Seniors migration cost British Columbia $7.2 billion in health-care expenses

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, November 15, 2017 Canada’s health-care system has lots of problems including its comparatively high cost, long wait times and middling performance among universal health-care countries. One problem, which has largely ...

7. The Impact of Interprovincial Migration of Seniors on Provincial Health Care Spending

   The dominant role played by government financing in Canada’s single-payer health care system has led to an oversight related to demographics: senior migration. Health care spending is skewed towards the first year of life and after retirement. The ...