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1. From the welfare state to the entitlement state

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Question: If someone made $62,000 last year, had $187,000 in their bank account, and yet sought a $5,360 subsidy from government, what would the common sense response be? Most people would say that person possesses chutzpah ...

2. Chrysler bellies back up to the corporate welfare trough

   Appeared in the Globe and Mail Back in late 2011 after the Occupy Wall Street protests, Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne gave a speech in Toronto to decry what he called "the most inane displays of greed." The reference was to behaviour he ...

3. Bombardier and Canada's corporate welfare trap

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province In the land of government plenty that vast landscape populated with the tax dollars of Canadians there is no shortage of politicians willing to hand out and defend subsidies to business and no dearth of corporations ...

4. Cut the Orwellian apologia for corporate welfare

   Appeared in National Post In his 1946 essay, Politics and the English Language, George Orwell argued that, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Orwell's quip came to mind again recently after reading Bombardier& ...

5. The Beatles, John Diefenbaker and chronic subsidy seekers

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald Back in 1962 John F. Kennedy had been president of the United States for one year, four lads from Liverpool were about to hit it big in the music world, and a Saskatchewan lawyer, John Diefenbaker, was in his fifth year as ...