Of all of Canada’s many misunderstood, abused and underappreciated institutions, monarchy and the Crown perhaps top the list. On few subjects do I hear as much rubbish talked as on…
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On 22 May 2018 I had an op-ed in the Sun newspapers about the relationship between EI and the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme (TFWP) in Atlantic Canada. On the surface…
In the struggle to gain insight into the causes of social ills like unemployment, poor educational performance, welfare dependency, inequality, social mobility and a host of other vital issues, almost …
One of the signature policies of the Liberals in the last election was their promise to increase substantially infrastructure spending and to run a deficit solely for this purpose. As…
Another hot topic for Canadians in 2018 was the disappointing decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on the Comeau “Free the Beer” case. Here is some of my commentary…
Trans Mountain pipeline (TM) is surely one of the most talked-about issues of 2018. Here are three of my recent contributions to the debate: First, on 18 April 2018 I…
On 18 Oct 2017 I had an op-ed in the Sun newspaper chain arguing that technolgical innovation has rendered tobacco abstinence the wrong policy if we want to reduce the…
The 2017 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 in…
In April the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its disappointing decision on the so-called “Free the Beer” case. Those of you who know my militant views on the importance of…
On 19 April 2018, Sean Speer and I wrote for Inside Policy on the manifest failures of Ottawa’s infrastructure programme. The idea that taxpayers, rather than those who actually use…