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  1. Government Failure in Canada, 2005 Report: A Review of the Auditor General's Reports, 1992-2005

    This publication has been written to inform Canadians about the theories and insights of Public Choice Theory, to document government failure from the reports of the Auditor General, and, perhaps most importantly, to describe the mechanisms available to ...

  2. Danger in Rigid Labour Laws: Ministers Propose Prescriptive Changes to Labour Market Regulation

    Appeared in the Financial Post, 11 November 2004 Recent announcements by the Ontario Minister of Labour, Chris Bentley, and his federal equivalent, Joe Fontana, indicate big changes to the regulations governing labour markets. Both ministers are pushing ...

  3. Raising the Wage Will Hurt Our Youth

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, 31 October 2004 There is perhaps no other area of public policy in which the tug-of-war between the heart and the mind is so fierce as the debate over minimum wages. Unfortunately, too many well-intentioned people take an ...

  4. Fraser Forum- March 2004: Families and the State

    In this issue: BC’s Dependency-inducing U-Turn on Welfare Reform by Jason Clemens, Niels Veldhuis, and Sylvia LeRoy The BC government recently de-legitimized one of Canada’s most important social welfare reforms to date. It’s the poor who’ll pay. Private ...

  5. Government Failure in Canada, 1997-2004: A Survey of Reports from the Auditor General

    This publication has been written to inform Canadians about the theories and insights of Public Choice Theory, to document government failure from the reports of the Auditor General, and, perhaps most importantly, to describe the mechanisms available to ...

  6. Ontario's Labour Reforms Ill Advised

    Appeared in the Toronto Star, February 8, 2004 Ontario Liberal government labour reforms are traveling across a familiar arc, one traced by NDP and Conservative governments before them. The Bob Rae government leaned left (with employment equity and hiring ...

  7. Labour's Real Need

    Appeared in the National Post, August 30, 2003 Labour Day is here once again, an annual celebration dating back officially to 1894 when the federal government designated the first Monday of September to celebrating the virtues of labour. Unofficially, it ...