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  1. Ontario’s Debt Balloon: Source and Sustainability

    The Ontario government’s net debt has expanded from 28% of the provincial economy in 2008/09 to an expected 40% in 2014/15. This represents an increase of over $117 billion or $7,800 more debt per On-tarian. The debt-to-GDP ratio is now much higher than ...

  2. The collateral damage of Ontario’s greenbelt

    Appeared in the Waterloo Region Record and Guelph Mercury Canada’s largest cities are growing rapidly and what were once sparsely populated rural areas are quickly becoming city neighbourhoods. Driving north of Toronto brings you through cities like ...

  3. Off-balance: Ontario growing expenditures faster than revenues

    Appeared in the Battlefords News-Optimist Ontario’s provincial government wants a balanced budget for the 2017-18 fiscal year, and Finance Minister Charles Sousa is adamant that Ontario will reach that goal. Given the arrival of spring budget season, the ...

  4. A low dollar and cheap oil didn’t rescue Ontario and Quebec before

    Appeared in the National Post One of the more persistent myths about prosperity is that it results purely from luck. Often, commentators credit the mere presence of oil, gas, potash and other natural resources for Western Canada’s recent (and presently ...

  5. Mandatory Ontario pension plan unnecessary

    Appeared in the Financial Post The Ontario Liberals recently introduced legislation to create a mandatory government pension plan modelled after the Canada Pension Plan. The legislation, originally sketched out in their pre-election budget, is based on ...

  6. Who Could Object to a Carbon Tax?

    Appeared in The Province, Huffington Post, and Okanagan Saturday, Dec 5, 2014 Carbon taxes are back on centre stage in Canada, after a new “bipartisan” Ecofiscal Commission came out in favour of the idea. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is also talking ...

  7. Hot air from the wind lobby

    Appeared in the Financial Post On October 30 we published a Fraser Institute study entitled “ What Goes Up… Ontario’s Soaring Electricity Prices and How to Get Them Down.” We analyzed the factors driving the rise in Ontario’s electricity prices, focusing ...

  8. Climate Change: It’s Not the Science, It’s the Policy

    Appeared in VancouverSun.com The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest “Synthesis Report” drawing together the findings of the most recent three-volume set of the Fifth Assessment Report. The Assessment Report is ...

  9. How green energy is fleecing Ontario electricity consumers

    Appeared in the Financial Post Ontario’s green energy transformation-- initiated a decade ago under then-Premier Dalton McGuinty-- is now hitting consumers. The November 1 increase for households is the next twist of that screw. As Ontario consumers know ...

  10. What Goes Up...Ontario's Soaring Electricity Prices and How to Get Them Down

    Ontario’s total annual power cost has risen by over 50% since 2004, despite declining competitive wholesale market prices. This is due to increases in the so-called Global Adjustment, a non-market mechanism that now dominates power pricing in Ontario, and ...