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1. Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Essays on Improving Productivity Growth in Canada

   Surveys of Canadians have shown a strong desire for reduced work hours with a four-day work week being a highly prized goal. This is hardly surprising given that leisure time is a valuable good for most people. To be sure, a four-day work week would be ...

2. Upcoming budget represents unique opportunity for New Brunswick

   Between 2014 and 2018, business investment in New Brunswick declined by 0.1 per cent annually. ...

3. Tax reform will increase possibility of four-day workweek in Canada

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, February 17, 2021 The idea of a four-day workweek has gained significant traction in Canada. According to an Angus Reid poll, the majority of Canadians surveyed last June agreed it would benefit the country to shorten the ...

4. Atlantic Canada's Precarious Public Finances

   Canada’s four Atlantic provinces—Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland & Labrador—face long-term threats to fiscal sustainability. COVID-19 and the resulting economic downturn has only added to these challenges. Further, ...

5. Tax reform should play crucial role in COVID recovery

   Canada has the seventh-highest top combined personal income tax rate in the OECD. ...

6. Trudeau government must create friendlier investment climate to spur COVID recovery

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 8, 2021 In advance of the Trudeau government’s upcoming federal budget, the economic recovery from the COVID recession remains the top priority. Crucially, even before the pandemic, Canada was struggling to ...

7. Higher capital gains tax would hurt Canada's economic recovery

   Appeared in the Financial Post, February 4, 2021 Context is important. Most economists, including Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem, agree that investment must be the foundation for economic recovery. Unfortunately, Canada's performance on ...

8. Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Part 4 Essays

   The structure and rates of taxation are important in any discussion of productivity in Canada because the various types of taxes, as well as tax rates, affect economic behavior in different ways. Three prominent types of taxes in Canada are business taxes ...

9. Capital gains tax hike would be disastrous for economic recovery

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, February 3, 2021 As the Trudeau government prepares its 2021 budget, the first in almost two years, policymakers in Ottawa must make important decisions about Canada’s taxes and how best to promote economic growth and ...

10. Investors souring on Nova Scotia’s oil and gas sector

    Last year was the first in at least 25 years that the province derived no revenue from petroleum royalties. ...