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1. Income Mobility: The Rich and Poor in Canada

   One set of government statistics shows that the average incomes of Canadians in the lowest quintile of the distribution, the “poor”, remained constant during the period from 1990 to 2009. Another set of government statistics indicates that, over the same ...

2. Despite predictable opposition, pending trade deals would benefit Canada

   At the top of her agenda, Chrystia Freeland (pictured above), Canada’s new Minister of International Trade, plans to work with Parliament to ratify two important treaties that reduce existing barriers to free trade—the Comprehensive ...

3. Immigration and the Welfare State Revisited: Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada in 2014

   We estimated in our earlier papers that because of the low average incomes of recent immigrants, the low taxes they pay and the government services they absorb, the fiscal burden on Canadian taxpayers was over $6,000 per capita in fiscal year 2005/06, and ...

4. Lobbying helps preserve billions in transfers for Canada's milk producers

   All political parties in Canada during the 2015 election campaign have pledged their ever-lasting support for the maintenance of the existing supply management program, which fixes prices, determines output and imports for dairy products ...

5. Determinants of Economic Freedom

   Many studies have shown that economic freedom is a major determinant of countries’ living standards, economic growth, and other indicators of social and economic well-being. This paper is an effort to understand the determinants of economic freedom in ...

6. In Defence of the Euro and Angela Merkel

   Appeared in the National Post It is impossible to know how the latest Greek tragedy will end, but one thing is clear. If the new government ends fiscal austerity, reverses recent reforms and exits from the Euro zone, Greece will again become the economic ...

7. What Piketty Misses

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press Thomas Piketty's book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is a global best seller that has attracted more reviews from academics and public intellectuals than any other economics book in recent memory. But none ...

8. Canada's Immigrant Selection Policies- Recent Record, Marginal Changes and Needed Reforms

   This paper reviews the history of Canadian immigration policies and documents that the present policies impose on Canadians a fiscal burden of $20 billion annually. The existence of this burden is attributed to flaws in the current immigrant selection ...

9. Sensibly Rational Policies to deal with Environmental Risks

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, Trail Daily Times and New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal BC Premier Christy Clark’s demand for payments in return for permission to ship oil across BC lands is ill advised. It does not matter whether this payment takes the form ...

10. Beware the hidden costs of bike sharing programs

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun The High Priests of the Green Religion in Vancouver City Hall are about to please their supporters with another innovation that will save Mother Earth from the users of automobiles who poison the atmosphere with carbon ...