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1. What to look for in Ontario’s fiscal update this week

   On Thursday, Finance Minister Charles Sousa will provide an update for Ontarians on the state of provincial government finances. ...

2. Another warning sign Ontario may not meet its balanced budget target

   Appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, November 10, 2015 The Ontario government has dug itself deep into debt and continues to spend more than the revenue it brings in each year. While it has pledged to eliminate the deficit by 2017/18, a new report from the ...

3. Ontario—No Longer a Place to Prosper

   Ontario, once Canada’s economic powerhouse, has experienced an historic reversal of its fortunes within Confederation over the past decade. For decades after the Second World War, Ontario’s household income never failed to surpass the national average by ...

4. Dear Mr. Clark, please tell the premier revenue is not Ontario’s problem

   Appeared in the Financial Post According to the Globe and Mail, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has a new advisor, former TD Bank chief executive officer, Ed Clark. Mr. Clark will apparently advise the government on a host of issues including finding new ...

5. Ontario Manufacturing: Myths vs. Realities

   Appeared in the National Post Ontario’s chronic budget deficits have been a problem for more than a decade, as they initially surfaced during the early 2000s but came back with a vengeance once the recession struck. Defenders of the status quo argue that ...

6. Ontario premier's fiscal imprudence is reckless

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press and Flin Flon Reminder, Jan 25, 2015 How governments manage their finances matters a great deal. Spend and borrow too much and the result is a spiral of increasing deficits that create ever higher debt. Then, ever-more ...

7. Ontario Auditor General’s not-so-subtle debt warning

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record When the federal government faced a growing debt problem in the late 1980s, then Opposition finance critic Paul Martin was initially skeptical about cutting spending. In 1989, he labelled mild government efforts to ...

8. Telling tales is human; politicians shouldn’t overdo it

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald From the first tale told by our ancestors around a fire somewhere in Africa millions of years ago to the plot behind a summer blockbuster movie, we—the human race— have always been superb storytellers. And our stories matter ...

9. Duncan must deal with the real problem: government spending

   Appeared in the Kingston Whig-Standard, London Free Press, Waterloo Region Record, Timmins Daily Press, Tillsonburg News, Pembroke Observer, Chatham Daily News, Sarnia Observer, Owen Sound Sun Times, and Guelph Mercury If Ontarians are to believe Finance ...