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1. More scrutiny required on wages and benefits of government employees in B.C.

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, January 13, 2017 With many governments across Canada mired in red ink, B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong’s plan to balance the budget this year is a laudable goal. But there are significant risks on the horizon in British ...

2. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in British Columbia, 2017

   Main Conclusions Using data on individual workers from January to December 2015, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in British Columbia. It also evaluates four available non-wage benefits in an attempt ...

3. Spreading the Economic Freedom Message

   Appeared in Fraser Insight, January 2017 Economic freedom is one of the main drivers of prosperity, as the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America index (EFNA) has illustrated—and hundreds of independent studies have confirmed. For a dozen ...

4. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Canada

   Using data on individual workers from January to December 2015, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in Canada. It also evaluates four available non-wage benefits in an attempt to quantify compensation ...

5. Warning for Canada—government red tape burdens U.S. productivity

   The U.S. economy is enduring a dismal stretch of low productivity growth. It was recently announced that labour, measured as the total output of goods and services for each hour of labour, declined at a one per cent seasonally adjusted ...

6. The Retreat of Economic Freedom Continues

   Appeared in The American Thinker, December 22, 2015 The self-styled “land of the free” is not as free as it once was—or as we in the United States think of ourselves. But don’t take my word for it. The U.S. ranks 16th in the Fraser Institute’s latest ...

7. Poor policies largely drive Ontario’s lagging labour market performance

   This second post on Ontario’s lack of prosperity focuses on unemployment in the province, a key measure of the performance of the labour market. Recall that the first post illustrated the poor economic growth recorded in the province vis ...

8. Greek government helping the rich, not ordinary Greeks

   Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record Greek fire terrified ancient mariners. Blazing liquid shot from a hose, dosing enemy vessels with flaming material that continued to burn after landing on ships, water and sailors. Fast forward to today. It’s just a ...

9. Do we need governments to meddle with CEO pay levels?

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun A number of pundits and activists regularly claim CEOs are grossly overpaid compared to average workers. Their solution: raise taxes or impose a government mandate such as a limiting CEO pay to some arbitrary ratio relative ...

10. Laboratories of democracy: Disparities between the 50 states

    Appeared in the Washington Examiner, Dec 2, 2014 This year’s Economic Freedom of North America 2014 (EFNA) report shows that, once again, while we are the United States, our states have bigger differences than climate, seasons and terrain. The levels of ...