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1. Canada asleep at the wheel on U.S. tax reform

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, December 14, 2017 Former prime minister Pierre Trudeau once famously quipped that living next to the United States “is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant.” By this he meant that developments in the U.S. often have ...

2. How healthy is Ontario’s economy—outside of Toronto?

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, November 8, 2017 Earlier this week, the Government of Ontario put out a news release touting Ontario’s job-creation numbers. According to the release, province has enjoyed positive net job creation for the past four months. It ...

3. Economists and media fuel confusion on Canada’s economy and economic policy

   Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, November 3, 2017 As the old joke goes, why did God create economists? To make weatherman look good. At times like this, nothing could be closer to the truth (full disclosure, we’re economists). On Monday, Statistics Canada ...

4. Reality check—this year’s uptick in economic growth has nothing to do with government policy

   Appeared in the Financial Post, October 25, 2017 During Tuesday’s federal fiscal update, Finance Minister Bill Morneau (pictured above right) said higher-than-expected economic growth for 2017 is evidence that the Trudeau government’s plan is working. In ...

5. Governments across Canada hurting business investment

   Appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press, October 24, 2017 The importance of business investment to economic growth is widely acknowledged. Investment boosts productive capacity and embodies new technologies that raise productivity and living standards over ...

6. Red tape chasing investors away from Alberta’s energy industry

   Appeared in the Edmonton Journal, October 18, 2017 Earlier this month, TransCanada Corporation, a major North American energy company, pulled the plug on Energy East—its 1.1 million-barrel-per-day oil pipeline between Alberta and New Brunswick—after the ...

7. Business investment down, taxes up—bad news for Canadians

   With less than three months left in 2017, despite recent headlines espousing positive economic news, Canada’s economy faces many near and long-term challenges that the Trudeau government must consider as it crafts its fiscal update (due ...

8. Business Investment in Canada Falls Far Behind Other Industrialized Countries

   This bulletin provides an overview of business investment in Canada: why investment is important, its recent performance, and how it compares with other industrialized countries. Business investment is central to long-term economic growth and ...

9. There’s a right way and a wrong way to attract businesses to your city

   Vancouver, along with dozens of other cities, is trying to attract Amazon’s second North American headquarters. ...

10. Obstacles to business investment in Ontario—high labour costs

    A recent study by the Fraser Institute showed that weak business investment remains a serious problem for Ontario’s economy, with important implications for the province’s medium- and long-term growth prospects. While the provincial ...