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…
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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…
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…
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…