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1. Air Canada still flying high on Ottawa's corporate welfare

   Appeared in the Guelph Mercury, Kingston Whig-Standard and Sudbury Star The regulation of the Canadian air industry is supposed to ensure that the public has access to safe, reliable flights at the lowest cost. This mandate has been perverted. The ...

2. The Economics of the Gun Registry

   Appeared in the Montreal Gazette In 1994, when Liberal Justice Minister Allan Rock introduced legislation for the long gun registry, I sat a few feet from him in the House of Commons, serving as a member of the Reform Party caucus. Before Question Period ...

3. The Burden of the Canada Post Monopoly

   Appeared in the Financial Post Canada Post is a dinosaur that has lived far too long.  Only a monopoly protected by government can treat the public the way it does.  The cost of stamps for a first class letter on January 11 went from 54 to 57 cents, for ...

4. The Effects of Mass Immigration

   Since 1990, Canada's annual rate of immigration has been extremely high-the highest in the world, averaging 0.75% of the population-and has had a significant impact on the size of the population, adding, between 1990 and 2006, 3.9 million (14.2%) to ...

5. Not More Regulation, Please

     French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s recent statement in Quebec that he favours more state regulation to fix capitalism and the financial markets should not have come as a surprise. Regulation works well for the French in France. It resulted in the ...

6. Petro-crisis redux; Like the economic crises of the '80s and '90s, the current one stems from recycled petrodollars

   Appeared in the National Post The problems caused by the recycling of petrodollars have been identified and much discussed as the ultimate cause of global financial crises in the 1980s and 1990s. It is curious, therefore, that this subject has not come up ...

7. Government Lovers: Paid by Canadian Governments and Taxpayers

   This study presents information about the size of government in Canada by accounting for the number of Canadians who are paid by governments as civil servants and beneficiaries of social insurance programs. It supplements the annual Tax Freedom Day ...

8. We’re all getting richer due to income mobility

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, Okanagan Sunday and Windsor Star There has been a spate of news stories in recent months dealing with the suggestion that the gap between the rich and the poor in Canada is at a 30-year high. Liberal leader Stéphane ...

9. Immigration and the Welfare State in Canada: Growing Conflicts, Constructive Solutions

   This paper recommends a continuation of the efforts to achieve a better use of the high skill levels of the recent wave of educated immigrants. However, its main recommendation involves a fundamental reform of Canada's immigration selection process ...

10. Pitfalls of Proportional Representation Outweigh its Benefits

    Appeared in the Toronto Star, 15 November 2004 More than 1,500 written submissions to the Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform in British Columbia have been published on the Internet. Most criticize the present, so- called plurality or first-past-the ...