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1. Ontario’s decade of spending decadence

   Appeared in the Windsor Star The Ontario government has never made a secret of its desire to have the federal government help fund Ontario’s provincial budget. It even started its own think-tank with $5 million in 2009, which regularly publishes reports ...

2. Ontario's financial problems are Ontario-made

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald and Ottawa Citizen, July 2014 Discussing equalization and other federal transfer payments in summer is about as much fun as a root canal in any season. Nevertheless, Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa complained recently ...

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. Equalization, Ontario, and the politics of division

   Equalization is a federal transfer program that is explicitly designed to subsidize provinces with weak own-source revenues and to be politically unifying. However, the flip in Ontario?s status from a?have? to a?have-not? province has had, and will ...

5. Equalization: A lousy deal for Ontario and the West

   Appeared in the National Post In a recent drive from Saint John to St. Andrews, New Brunswick, I marvelled at the mostly four-lane highway that connected the two points on the map and how empty it was on a Friday evening on a long weekend.  I compared it ...

6. 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 ...