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  1. Equalization allows Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to pass up jobs, income, and tax revenues

    Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, New Glasgow Daily News, and Red Deer Advocate Dec 23, 2014 Canada’s federal equalization program is motivated by good intentions. However, the program has unintended consequences, and creates perverse ...

  2. The cause of the Canada-U.S. price gap is obvious- the government

    Appeared in the National Post and Calgary Herald Canadian shoppers have long suffered from higher prices on some consumer goods, relative to other countries, especially the United States. In an attempt to "remedy" the situation, the federal ...

  3. New Brunswick ignores neighbour’s energy success

    Appeared in the New Brunswick Telegraph Journal New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant, seems poised to follow through on a campaign promise to institute a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. News reports suggest he’ll implement that moratorium before ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Equalization Policy Crutch

    The equalization program creates disincentives in have-not provinces for economic development that would act to increase own-source revenues. The 2007 equalization reform sought to weaken these disincentives for natural resource development by excluding ...

  6. Calgary’s property tax increases

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald Once again, Calgary city council has raised property taxes beyond the rate of inflation. No surprise. Over the past seven years, only once, in 2007, has council approved a tax increase below Calgary’s inflation rate. For ...

  7. Worried about Alberta’s budget? Stop counting on high resource prices

    Appeared in the Calgary Herald Forty-one billion dollars. That’s the extra amount, over and above what was needed to keep pace with population growth and inflation between 2006 and 2013, this to fund Alberta government program spending in those years. So ...

  8. Ontario versus the West: No contest

    Appeared in the Globe and Mail When Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced a budget update and a revised, lower forecast for provincial economic growth, it was yet another piece of evidence that Ontario’s economy is sluggish. But Ontario’s ...

  9. The New West: Money, jobs and a flood of young adults

      Question: If you’re young, or have very little education, where’s the best place in the country to find a job, make a decent income and prosper? Answer: Alberta, followed by Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Most Canadians likely suspect that economic ...

  10. Go West, Young Adults: The 10-Year Western Boom in Investment, Jobs and Incomes

    If a young Canadian seeks economic opportunity—that is, employment and the chance to achieve at least a middle class income—which provinces can best provide those opportunities? The data show that Western Canada is the land of opportunity for young adults ...