In an op-ed co-authored with my colleague Sean Speer and published in the Financial Post on July 28th, 2016, we show how clearing the way for more pipelines to be…
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Writing in my regular Ottawa Citizen column on July 15th, 2016, I argue that the most recent dispute over the South China Sea is a challenge not merely to Canada…
Writing in the Globe on Canada Day, Sean Speer and I argued in this commissioned op-ed that Prime Minister Trudeau must understand that real reform on internal trade needs to…
In my June 16th, 2016 Ottawa Citizen column in the days leading up to the federal-provincial meeting on CPP expansion I urged Canadians not to believe the hype coming from…
Better incentives and less bureaucracy are the key to reforming Canada’s costly and inefficient health-care system, says a new video from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Sustainable Medicare For All, the fourth…
Canada should be a world food superpower. Instead, as I wrote in my 10th June Economy Lab column for the Globe’s ROB, we are seeing our share of markets steadily…
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…
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’…