Trans Mountain pipeline (TM) is surely one of the most talked-about issues of 2018. Here are three of my recent contributions to the debate: First, on 18 April 2018 I…
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The Macdonald-Laurier Institute has launched a new series of podcasts entitled Pod Bless Canada. Each episode of roughly 30 minutes showcases a chat between an MLI representative and someone knowledgeable…
On 18 Oct 2017 I had an op-ed in the Sun newspaper chain arguing that technolgical innovation has rendered tobacco abstinence the wrong policy if we want to reduce the…
The 2017 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 in…
In April the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its disappointing decision on the so-called “Free the Beer” case. Those of you who know my militant views on the importance of…
On 19 April 2018, Sean Speer and I wrote for Inside Policy on the manifest failures of Ottawa’s infrastructure programme. The idea that taxpayers, rather than those who actually use…
All the way back in April 2018 (the 18th to be precise) I was arguing in MLI’s Inside Policy magazine that the real obstacle to completing the TransMountain pipeline wasn’t going…
On 23 March 2018, Ryerson history professor Patrice Dutil and I did a podcast on how modern Canadians should feel about Canadian history. This segment in the series Pod Bless…
It appears the only way a major pipeline project in Canada can get built is if the federal government buys the project as it did when it spent $4.5 billion…
There can be fewer spots on the face of the earth filled with more tension than the Taiwan Straits that separate the People’s Republic of China from Taiwan. China regards…