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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. New Brunswick ignores neighbour’s energy success

   Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant, seems poised to follow through on a campaign promise to institute a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. News reports suggest he’ll implement that moratorium before ...

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. Memo to politicians: Imitate the Fathers of Confederation

   Back in Canada’s pre-Confederation days, one selling point for uniting the then-disparate British provinces was to drop existing barriers to commerce. The hope was for a country with a free-flow of trade and services in which all could potentially prosper ...

5. 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 ...

6. Fracking causes gonorrhea and other economic myths

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Nanaimo Daily News, New Glasgow News, and North Bay Nugget One benefit of column writing is the chance for feedback from readers, be they fans, critics or the merely curious. Responses arrive that reflect the rainbow of ...

7. 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 ...