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1. Trump and Clinton ignore economic freedom during first presidential debate

   On Monday, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton squared off in perhaps the most highly anticipated presidential debate in history. As the candidates went back and forth for 90 minutes, a major theme of past presidential debates and indeed of ...

2. ’80s movie taps timeless entrepreneurial spirit

   Last night I watched Coppola’s 1988 movie Tucker: The Man and His Dream for the first time since high school. I remembered the film as the story of one of the great American entrepreneurial dreams and its demise at the hands of the ...

3. Government policies threaten economic freedom in Canada

   Appeared in the National Post, September 15, 2016 Canada ranks a remarkable fifth in the world in economic freedom, just behind Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Switzerland. The “land of the maple leaf” is far ahead of our southern neighbour, ...

4. Canada’s high level of economic freedom at risk

   Economic freedom, the ability of individuals and families to make their own economic decisions free of interference from overly ambitious government or crony capitalists—is a core “Canadian value.” Canada ranks fifth in the world in this ...

5. William Watson: The bank will set you free?

   I live in a town in which, if you want to change the colour of your front door, you have to get the colour approved by the town. So when Canada comes fifth in the entire world in terms of economic freedom, as it does in the latest issue ...

6. Economic Freedom of the World: 2016 Annual Report

   The index published in Economic Freedom of the World measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. The cornerstones of economic freedom are per-sonal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to ...

7. Recall referendum may be only hope for Venezuela

   There comes a time when multilateral organizations that claim to promote democracy should, in fact, promote democracy. Now is the hour for the Organization of American States, and particularly for Canada as a prominent influential member ...

8. Blazing Saddles and crony capitalists

   The recent death of Gene Wilder prompted a number of showings of his films around the country. I was able to attend a screening of the Mel Brooks classic comedy Blazing Saddles. The comedy still holds up after more than 40 years, but ...

9. Albertans and Americans are becoming less free

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, August 26, 2016 Just as the United States has long served as a global exemplar of economic freedom and prosperity, Alberta has for many years been an example for other provinces in Canada, showing how to provide liberty and ...

10. Venezuela’s tragedy spurred by crony capitalists and socialists who detest free markets

    Appeared in the Globe and Mail, August 13, 2016 Imagine a city where menus don’t print prices because inflation drives them higher daily; where streets are ghostly empty after dark and the murder rate is the world’s highest; where people queue for hours ...