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1. Your family’s largest expense may surprise you

   Appeared in the Regina Leader Post, Kelowna Daily Courier, and Windsor Star If you asked average Canadian families what their largest expense is, many would probably say housing. And you can’t blame them. Mortgage and rental payments are a painful monthly ...

2. More deficit spending not the answer for Ottawa

   Appeared in the Financial Post The 2007/08 recession knocked many Canadian governments off the sound policy footing of balanced budgets, falling debt levels, and tax relief. After a sustained period of deficit spending, the federal government now seems ...

3. Are “Wynne Days” Coming?

   Appeared in Waterloo Region Record We’ve seen this script before. Higher spending. Tax increases. Persistent deficits. Growing debt. Warnings from credit rating agencies. A government unwilling to make the tough choices to turn things around. That’s the ...

4. High personal taxes may hurt the Senators and Leafs on free agency day

   Appeared in Hamilton Spectator, Sudbury Star, Waterloo Region Record, and Moncton Times & Transcript July 1 is an important day for Canadians as they celebrate the country’s founding. It’s also the first day that NHL teams can sign free agents for the ...

5. Ontario’s wake-up call

   Appeared in the Huffington Post Roughly 12 hours after Premier Kathleen Wynne was re-elected in Ontario with a majority government, bond markets and international credit rating agencies sent her a powerful message about the province’s dismal public ...

6. Quebec's budget next step in a recovery plan

   Appeared in the Huffington Post Premier Couillard's government will table its first budget on June 4 and early signs suggest it's not going to be business as usual. "The time for cosmetic changes is gone" We must act firmly and ...

7. Moody's report yet another warning sign for Ontario to act

   Appeared in the Guelph Mercury A new report on provincial debts and deficits by Moody's, the international credit rating agency, is another piercing reminder of Ontario's serious fiscal challenges. Based on media accounts, the report warns that ...

8. Complying with personal income taxes takes chunk out of household budgets

   the New Glasgow News Brooks Weekend Regional The end of April is traditionally the tax filing deadline, and a time when Canadians are frantically organizing their receipts and other documents from the past year to complete their ‎personal income tax ...

9. Train wreck of a budget pushes Ontario further in the wrong direction

     With Ontario lagging behind other provinces on a wide range of economic indicators and recently becoming a "have-not" province, it desperately needed a bold plan to improve competitiveness and foster economic growth. Unfortunately, Thursday& ...

10. Proposed Ontario pension plan unnecessary

      Ontario's recent budget included the Liberals' proposal for a mandatory government pension plan modelled after the Canada Pension Plan. The proposal, however, is largely based on the faulty assumption that most Canadians are not adequately ...