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  1. Don’t be like the media and politicians—actually read StatsCan data on latest job numbers

    The media sure likes today’s employment numbers from Statistics Canada. Here are just two examples of this morning’s headlines. “Canada sees jobs surge in August with 81K new positions” (Global News) and “Canada's economy blows past ...

  2. Media fuels Morneau’s state of denial

    Appeared in the National Post, September 6, 2019 When economic information is released on a Friday before a long weekend, you can assume there’s a strategic reason, which usually results in the sound of crickets from the media. But that sure wasn’t the ...

  3. Albertans contribute disproportionately to the CPP and other programs

    Appeared in the National Post, April 4, 2019 There’s a palpable rising frustration in western Canada, particularly in Alberta, regarding the give-and-take of national programs —a growing sense (again) that Ottawa just doesn’t understand the West. ...

  4. Albertans Make Disproportionate Contributions to National Programs: The Canada Pension Plan as a Case Study

    Alberta disproportionately contributes to a host of national and federal programs. This bulletin examines the province’s contributions to the Canada Pension Plan. In 2017, Alberta workers represented 16.5 percent of the total contributions to the ...

  5. Budget 2019 underscores Trudeau government’s economic delusion

    Appeared in the Vancouver Province, March 27, 2019 Over the past three-and-half years, this federal government has continued to claim that its fiscal policies have spurred economic growth. Last week’s federal budget continued that trend. The reality, ...

  6. Interventionist government approach underpins SNC-Lavalin affair

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, March 19, 2019 There are essentially two competing views—though there’s never a pure version of either implemented—of how best to develop an economy. One view is that the government take an activist interventionist approach to ...

  7. Alberta Prosperity: A Plan for Opportunity and Growth

    Alberta faces substantial fiscal and economic challenges. The downturn in commodity prices that began in 2014 triggered a severe recession and exacerbated pre-existing fiscal challenges. Unfortunately, provincial government policy has made matters worse ...

  8. The SNC-Lavalin affair—crony capitalism in action

    Appeared in the National Post, February 21, 2019 With new developments breaking daily in the SNC-Lavalin affair, the economic impact of the company’s decline (or demise) on Quebec is becoming increasingly obfuscated. This is a particularly sensitive issue ...

  9. Ford right to highlight economic damage of carbon taxes

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, February 7, 2019 Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said a carbon tax “will be a total economic disaster” and the “risk of a carbon-tax recession is very, very real.” Predictably, media outlets across the country blasted ...

  10. What happens when Canada ignores incentives and competitiveness

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, February 5, 2019 Anecdotes of Canadian firms leaving or diverting investments outside the country have continued unabated from 2018. The federal and many provincial governments seem reluctant to acknowledge this ...