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  1. Who Bears the Burden of Property Taxes in Canada’s Largest Metropolitan Areas?

    Property taxes are the primary source of revenue for local governments in Canada. The revenues raised are used to pay for a variety of public services including police, schools, fire protection, roads, and sewers. Owners of different classes of property, ...

  2. The Costs of Slow Economic Growth: Collected Essays

    Real economic growth is the pathway to higher standards of living. The latter encompasses not just more consumption of goods and services but also more leisure, an improved physical environment, better health and, more generally, a superior quality of ...

  3. Private health insurance, not government bureaucracy, spurs health-care innovation

    Canadians are often led to believe that private insurance for medically-necessary services is somehow antithetical to the spirit of universal care. In reality, private insurers are a common feature of universal systems around the world. ...

  4. Health care cannot modernize unless health policy changes first

    Appeared in Maclean's, August 20, 2019 The provision of medical services is on the cusp of breakthrough technologies. Companies from Apple to Amazon are making large investments in helping connect patients with doctors, while pharmaceutical companies ...

  5. Canada can’t escape Trump administration’s war on trade

    In the U.S. economic war with China, President Trump raised the stakes last week, with a 10 per cent tariff on an additional $300 billion of imported Chinese products. Tariffs on imports are only one weapon Trump has employed in his ...

  6. Federal government should give greater weight to education credentials to attract ‘elite’ immigrants

    Appeared in the National Post, July 26, 2019 The federal government’s “Express Entry” immigration program, implemented in 2015, substantially increased the emphasis on education as the basis for extending permanent resident status to potential immigrants. ...

  7. Highly Educated Immigrants: Economic Contributions and Implications for Public Policy

    Immigration is a contentious public policy issue. Most contention, however, is about immigration by individuals with relatively limited education and there is much less skepticism about the economic benefits of highly educated immigrants to the native ...

  8. Artificial Intelligence will kill jobs—and create them

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun, July 11, 2019 Ever since the Industrial Revolution, the automation of tasks once done by humans has raised fears about machines putting humans out of work and creating mass poverty. Happily, history has repeatedly proven the ...

  9. Dramatic drop in capital expenditures threatens Canada’s economic prosperity

    Appeared in the Brandon Sun, July 11, 2019 The federal government’s recent approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is a welcome sign that the Trudeau Liberals recognize the country’s deteriorating investment environment, particularly in the ...

  10. Technology, Automation, and Employment: Will this Time be Different?

    Western societies have exhibited a continuing worry that automation, particularly automation associated with artificial intelligence, will lead to massive unemployment and the impoverishment of large segments of society. In different epochs, technological ...