In my time in public policy I have heard a lot of rubbish talked about a lot of issues, but one that must win some kind of prize in the…
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In my never-ending campaign to épater les bourgeois (aka the commenters on the Globe’s comments page), my latest column takes aim at one of their favourite policy prescriptions: a guaranteed…
In my early November column for the PostMedia papers (including the Calgary Herald and the Ottawa Citizen) I talk about the Liberals’ deep commitment to the ideal of free trade,…
Genetically-modified foods are increasingly recognised as one of the indispensable tools in the world’s fight against starvation in the face of poplation growth that once again is outstripping food production….
For my October 16th ROB column in the Globe and Mail I wrote about why Canadians in particular need a productivity revolution, where we are most likely to find it,…
“Stimulus” is one of those words thrown around with gay abandon by politicians, especially dutring election campaigns, thinking they know what it means. In my column for the 18 September…
At the exact moment where Canada is risking its spot at the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations in a quixotic effort to buttress supply management, the EU, that bastion of neo-liberalism, is…
Donald Trump isn’t just a bombastic windbag. He’s an economic crank, most obviously in his claim that America has weakened itself by allowing manufacturing to go to China. He promises…
All the data show that there is no alternative to road transport for getting people around, including in the big cities. Indeed the share of people travelling exclusively by car…
Click here for my take on why Magna Carta still matters to Canada 800 years after King John signed it under protest on a muddy field at Runnymede. A specially…