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  1. Balanced budget requires tough choices, not wishful thinking

    Appeared in Globe and Mail Economy Lab “There’ll be no doubt that we’re balanced in 2015,” federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told reporters after recently meeting with a group of private sector economists. This is among Mr. Flaherty’s most categorical ...

  2. Ottawa drops hints for 2014 budget

      Fiscal policy is really about taxes and spending and the federal government recently provided some hints on its plans in these areas. In the recent Speech from the Throne, the government reaffirmed its commitment to balancing the budget by 2015-16 and ...

  3. Rescue Canada's poorest provincial economies: Allow fracking

    Appeared in the National Post The recent native protests in New Brunswick against proposed hydraulic fracturing ('fracking') are not only devoid of facts but harm the potential for prosperity and lower personal taxes. Add in the anti-fracking ...

  4. Hate to (Br)eak it to you Walt, but it's pretty (Ba)d in Canada too

    Appeared in the Huffington Post, October 2013 The season finale of the popular U.S. drama Breaking Bad brought with it renewed interest in a viral internet meme that implicitly suggested that the entire story might not have taken place had the main ...

  5. Pensions and governments both hurting from Canada's inability to ship oil to market

    Appeared in Huffington Post As almost everyone knows by now, Canada has some interesting challenges looming when it comes to transporting increasing oil production to markets both inside and outside of Canada. What many Canadians might not realize is how ...

  6. Giving Canadians faster access to new medicines

    Appeared in the Penticton Herald, Kelowna Daily Courier and Vernon Daily Courier Innovative new medicines can have a profound impact on the health and wellbeing of those stricken with illness. Unfortunately, Canadians are often denied these benefits for ...

  7. Controlling soaring public sector pension costs: Lessons from the Saskatchewan NDP

    Appeared in the National Post, Calgary Herald, Winnipeg Free Press, Victoria Times Colonist, and Okanagan Sunday Canadians routinely hear about alleged growing divides in Canadian society. But here is one rift that often goes unmentioned: the divide ...

  8. Time for Canada to come to the table on missile defence

    Appeared in the National Post "If North Korea would be ready to attack the United States," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in 2006, "that would be a risk for Canada's national security as well not only because of our common values, ...

  9. Canada today not what the fathers of Confederation envisioned

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun and Huffington Post Canada is a superb creation and initial credit for that must, obviously, go to Canada's fathers of Confederation. How we came about is a fascinating tale of seemingly intractable ...

  10. The Harper government's multi-billion dollar transparency problem

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald Canadians who don’t regularly track how governments spend money might be surprised to find how myths crop up about government expenditures. Exhibit A is a new report that claims Canada needs even more “industrial policy,” ...