You might be of the view that Uber and Canadian health care have nothing in common. How wrong you would be! They are both classic instances of how governments’ rhetorical…
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The dumbing down of the public service continues apace as Ottawa’s appeal to the guru of deliverology underlines. The whole subtext of deliverology is that civil servants exist merely to…
The latest marketing dodge by the Left is to start calling, not for higher minimum wages, but for a “living wage,” thereby cleverly evoking images of poor single mums struggling…
In the last Ontario budget Premier Kathleen Wynne brought free tuition to lowish-income students and in an interview lamented that she couldn’t make it free for everyone. I beg to…
A few years ago the London Stock Exchange, a global powerhouse in investment clearing made a rich and constructive offer to buy the Toronto Exchange. This would have tied our…
If you thought that Britain was an ageing doddery has-been barely managing the gentility of its decline, think again. In a stunning proof that how countries manage themselves matters, Britain…
In my February 5th column for the Globe’s Economy Lab feature I lay out what I think are two of the chief reasons to adopt the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The first…
We all get dazzled by the growth of Asian Tigers, China, etc., etc., particularly in terms of their trade performance (don’t get distracted by short term gyrations — I’m talking…
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…
As the world price of oil has fallen by almost $100/barrel in the last year or so, provincial finances in places like Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador have been…