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1. Ontario's Green Energy Act a Bad Bargain for Ontarians

   Appeared in the Financial Post In 2009, under the Premiership of Dalton McGuinty, the Ontario legislature passed the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA), an Act that aimed to increase Ontario’s use of renewable energy such as wind power, solar power, biofuels, ...

2. On Green Energy Act, Ontario government still sees no evil

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun Earlier this month the Fraser Institute published a report sharply critical of one of the flagship policies of the Ontario government, namely the Ontario Green Energy Act (GEA). We found that the Act is costing Ontario over $5 ...

3. Environmental and Economic Consequences of Ontario's Green Energy Act

   This report investigates the effect of the Green Energy Act(GEA) on economic competitiveness in Ontario. It focuses on three questions: (1) Will the GEA materially improve environmental quality in Ontario? (2) Is it a cost-effective plan for accomplishing ...

4. Green energy failure

   Appeared in the Financial Post The pledge by Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak to roll back key provisions of the Ontario Green Energy Act is a courageous move and deserves to be applauded. It will likely spark intense debates as we head into the upcoming ...

5. Fraser Forum- February 2010: The Rising Cost of Canadian Health Care

   In this issue: How to beat Africa’s health crisis by Philip Stevens The current state-centric model of delivering health care in Africa is not working. It’s time to examine other options. Key Concepts: Creative destruction by Nick Schulz Capitalism is ...

6. Critical Topics in Global Warming

   The issue of global warming is the subject of two parallel debates: one scientific, focused on the analysis of complex and conflicting data; the other political, addressing what is the proper response of government to a hypothetical risk. https://www ...

7. Check the numbers; From the U. S. subprime crisis to global warming, bad research is driving disastrous public policy

   Appeared in the Financial Post Empirical research in what are commonly called ‘peer-reviewed’ academic journals is often used as the basis for public policy decisions, in part because people think that ‘peer-review’ involves checking the accuracy of the ...

8. Check the Numbers: The Case for Due Diligence in Policy Formation

   Empirical research in academic journals is often cited as the basis for public policy decisions, in part because people think that the journals have checked the accuracy of the research. Yet such work is rarely subjected to independent checks for accuracy ...

9. A Breath of Fresh Air: The state of environmental policy in Canada

   Given Canadians' well-known concern for the environment, it may be difficult to find anyone in Canada who is against improving the quality of the environment. However, a reliance on unnecessarily costly and intrusive policies over the past several ...

10. Independent Summary for Policymakers

    The Independent for Policymakers is a detailed and thorough overview of the state of climate change science as laid out in the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) draft report. This independent summary has been reviewed by more ...