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1. A low dollar and cheap oil didn’t rescue Ontario and Quebec before

   Appeared in the National Post One of the more persistent myths about prosperity is that it results purely from luck. Often, commentators credit the mere presence of oil, gas, potash and other natural resources for Western Canada’s recent (and presently ...

2. How Quebec can get its mojo back- Focus on prosperity, not politics

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald For decades, Quebec and its governments have been petulant and demanding. The tendency has been there since at least the first avowedly separatist Parti Quebecois government, elected in 1976. That habit continued regardless ...

3. Is Quebec subsidized by the rest of Canada?

   There is nothing like an election to bring out the optimistic side in people—and some mythmaking. In Quebec, recent attention focused on Premier Pauline Marois and her musings that if her party wins the provincial election, and if separation one day ...

4. Rescue Canada's poorest provincial economies: Allow fracking

   Appeared in the National Post The recent native protests in New Brunswick against proposed hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') are not only devoid of facts but harm the potential for prosperity and lower personal taxes. Add in the anti-fracking ...

5. Quebec's election will cost us all

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times Colonist and Kamloops Daily News Imagine you’re a German asked to pay for the lifestyle of a Greek through ever-more transfers to the European Union or through bailouts for Greek debt. Imagine ...

6. Quebec's Greek-like welfare state: paid for by the West and Ontario

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald For anyone who has paid attention to the student protests/riots in Quebec over the past few months and knows anything about the vast sums of money transferred between governments in this country, there has been no shortage ...

7. Once again Quebec more equal than other provinces

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Winnipeg Free Press In the 1992 referendum on the Charlottetown Accord, British Columbians rejected the proposed amendments to Canada’s constitution with the highest “no” vote in the country (68.3%). Also in the “no” ...