In my last column for the ROB’s Economy Lab (in the G&M, 28 Oct.), I made the case for reconciliation with Indigenous people (FNs, Metis and Inuit) not just on…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes no bones about his admiration for China. He is also a great advocate of infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy. In my latest column for…
Writing with my inestimable colleague, Sean Speer, in the National Post we published an op-ed on October 6th offering our advice to Ottawa on the health care reform. The advice…
Inspired by a new Angus Reid/CBC poll that shows young Canadians significantly less likely than their older compatriots to feel patriotic about Canada, I wrote my Oct. 11th Ottawa Citizen…
In my regular Globe (ROB) column that appeared on 30 Sept. I delight in pointing out the absurdities of most government “innovation” policies. Governments cannot create new ideas by fiat,…
Sean Speer and I released a paper through MLI on 29 Sept. making the case that the fingering of foreigners as the primary cause of rising house prices is a…
I was proud to co-author an op-ed with Independent Senator Doug Black calling out the environmental movement for the recent disruption of hearings into the Energy East pipeline in Montreal. Those…
The Chinese have manufactured a trade issue out of thin air over concern about Canadian canola in order to gain leverage on other issues (SOE investment in natural resources, anyone?)….
Writing in the August 30th 2016 edition of the Financial Post, Sean Speer and I argue that Canada should be open for business, but being open for business doesn’t mean…
What do the impending failure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and China’s bad behaviour in the South China Sea have in common? Everything. And if TPP is indeed going…