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1. Equalization allows Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to pass up jobs, income, and tax revenues

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, New Glasgow Daily News, and Red Deer Advocate Dec 23, 2014 Canada’s federal equalization program is motivated by good intentions. However, the program has unintended consequences, and creates perverse ...

2. Worried about Alberta’s budget? Stop counting on high resource prices

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Forty-one billion dollars. That’s the extra amount, over and above what was needed to keep pace with population growth and inflation between 2006 and 2013, this to fund Alberta government program spending in those years. So ...

3. New Brunswick ignores energy success up north and in Pennsylvania

     In the recent New Brunswick election, an unremarkable engineering activity apparently took front and centre: hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, popularly known as fracking. The outgoing premier, David Alward, was clearly in favour of fracking. He ...

4. Nova Scotia opts for high taxes rather than fracking

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Cape Breton Post, and Moncton Times & Transcript From the fur trade to fisheries and forests, Canada was built on the toil and sweat of those who wanted to prosper. But these days, it’s harder to create opportunity. And ...

5. Canadian oil can make the world a safer place

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal Given Canada's proximity to the United States, we tend to take our peace and security for granted. This comfortable distance from most of the world's violence has also led us to underestimate ...

6. Canada is a country, not a set of provincial fiefdoms

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times Colonist and Winnipeg Free Press When Christy Clark recently asserted British Columbia didn’t need the federal government and also said “we don't need Alberta,” the B.C. premier ...