In the last Ontario budget Premier Kathleen Wynne brought free tuition to lowish-income students and in an interview lamented that she couldn’t make it free for everyone. I beg to…
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A few years ago the London Stock Exchange, a global powerhouse in investment clearing made a rich and constructive offer to buy the Toronto Exchange. This would have tied our…
In my latest screed for the Ottawa Citizen and other PostMedia dailies I make the case that the Tories have to change their image, as their UK cousins did, to…
If you thought that Britain was an ageing doddery has-been barely managing the gentility of its decline, think again. In a stunning proof that how countries manage themselves matters, Britain…
In my February 5th column for the Globe’s Economy Lab feature I lay out what I think are two of the chief reasons to adopt the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The first…
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At a time when the federal and several provincial governments have raised the bar on environmental and other standards for the oil patch it is not churlish to ask the…
We all get dazzled by the growth of Asian Tigers, China, etc., etc., particularly in terms of their trade performance (don’t get distracted by short term gyrations — I’m talking…
In my time in public policy I have heard a lot of rubbish talked about a lot of issues, but one that must win some kind of prize in the…