February 11, 2012 – In my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, I discuss how subsidizing poorly performing parts of Canada is in truth a policy of refusing to make people face the consequences of…
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January 31, 2012 – In today’s Globe and Mail, I discuss why raising the qualifying age for Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement is the right thing to do. The full…
In my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen, I discuss why we don’t process the oilsands here at home. Read my full column below: Why we don’t just refine…
January 23, 2012 – In today’s Hill Times column, I discuss how to restore the Canadian consensus in favour of natural resource development. The full column is below: Canada’s monumental economic challenge:…
By Brian Lee Crowley, Ottawa Citizen, January 14, 2012 The start of hearings about the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to take Alberta oil to the west coast has been notable…
December 14, 2011 – In today’s Financial Post, I discuss how North America is a deeply integrated, cross-border economy whose most important feature is not free trade in finished goods….
In today’s Ottawa Citizen, I discuss the upside of downloading – cutting transfers to provinces in order to balance federal budgets. Click here for full column. In my November 28th column for…
My latest column for the Ottawa Citizen was published this past weekend. In this column, I discussed Washington’s plan to delay their decision on the Keystone XL pipeline. My column (copied below) also appeared in…
My latest column for the Ottawa Citizen is copied below. It also appeared in National Post Chris Selley’s Weekend Roundup. Things I didn’t know about unions By Brian Lee Crowley,…
On November 5, 2011, CBC’s Rex Murphy invited Brian on his show, Cross Country Checkup, to discuss whether Canada needs tougher crime laws.