Thanks to the right set of incentives, Canada’s homeownership rate has surpassed the United States’ for the first time in years. U.S. policymakers should be paying attention, as Sean Speer…
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The recent G7 meeting in Japan should give Prime Minister Trudeau reason to reflect on his plan for deficit spending as Sean Speer and I argued in an op-ed on…
During the last federal election campaign the Liberals warned that you can’t cut your way to prosperity and campaigned on “stimulative” deficits to take up slack in the economy. But…
In my May 20th column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers I take aim at the attitude that employers must tie themselves in knots to accommodate young workers’…
You might be of the view that Uber and Canadian health care have nothing in common. How wrong you would be! They are both classic instances of how governments’ rhetorical…
The dumbing down of the public service continues apace as Ottawa’s appeal to the guru of deliverology underlines. The whole subtext of deliverology is that civil servants exist merely to…
The Grits are fumbling the defence of the LAV sale to Saudi Arabia. And they’re not just fumbling a little bit. It’s a Bob-Stanfield-dropping-the-football photo op kind of fumble. Yet…
The American Left (embodied by Bernie “Feel-the-Bern” Sanders) and Right (represented by Donald “The Donald” Trump) are what I variously refer to as the Sandrumps or the Trumpanders. Why? Because…
The latest marketing dodge by the Left is to start calling, not for higher minimum wages, but for a “living wage,” thereby cleverly evoking images of poor single mums struggling…
As I argue in my March 26th column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers, the Liberals have chosen internal trade liberalisation as the one issue where they see…