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  1. Ontario government must freeze nominal spending to close fiscal gap

    Next week, the Ford government will table its first budget and Ontarians will get the clearest signals to-date of this government’s fiscal plans. According to recently-revised fiscal numbers, Ontario has been running deficits since 2008 ...

  2. Government’s plan for Northern Ontario fails to deliver

    When it comes to economic policy, good government involves knowing when to do something and when to do nothing. Ontario’s Northern Growth Plan is an interesting variation on this motif as a government policy that despite its lofty goals ...

  3. Ontario the new Argentina

    Appeared in Waterloo Region Record, New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal, and Kelowna Daily Courier Ontarians have re-elected a government whose decade long reign dovetails with the lowest growth rate of provincial real per capita GDP in the Canadian ...

  4. What Ontario Can Learn from Greece

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press and Woodstock Sentinel Review “Even Greece, the poster child for rampant debt, carried an Ontario-style debt load as recently as 1984” Don Drummond (2012) Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services Greece is ...