I was on the Dave Rutherford show yesterday to discuss my latest commentary for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Trading in Superstitions. You can hear the interview here (set to and click…
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Prime Minister Harper heads to Washington today with border issues high on the agenda and I cannot help but recall my trip to Chicago earlier in the week. My hosts…
Here in Chicago to talk with numerous US audiences about Canada-US relations in the middle of the snow storm of the last few decades. Perhaps surprisingly, lots of people braved…
My oped in the Moncton Times & Transcript on the planned cuts to Canada’s corporate income taxes is available here. As federal and provincial governments struggle to keep public finances…
My January 31, 2011 column for the Hill Times is available here.
The other day I was on TV opposite Jim Stanford of the Canadian Auto workers. The topic: corporate tax cuts. As usual, Jim was a worthy opponent, although I disagreed…
The Prime Minister and Rob Moore, Minister of State (Small Business and Tourism), just announced the creation of the Red Tape Reduction Commission, which will work to reduce the burden…
What a tangled web we weave when first was practise to…subsidise political parties (with apologies to Sir Walter Scott). A number of commentators have worked themselves into a state of…
Writing in the January 6th National Post, Megan O’Toole reports that, “Convicted terrorist Shareef Abdelhaleem has provided the courts with no indication of remorse and little hope he will reform,…
Today’s Financial Post reveals the startling news that brewers in Quebec don’t think they’re allowed to charge enough for beer. If they were selling TVs, or cars or jeans, of…