One of the things that has always struck me about Canada is that whatever powers the provinces have must be respected without question and if they exercise them everyone rushes…
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In my latest column for the Ottawa Citizen and other Postmedia papers I dissect the significance of the European Court of Justice’s decision to recognise an individual’s “right to be…
“Social licence” is a concept on everyone’s lips these days as we debate pipelines, dangerous rail cargoes, appropriate forestry policies, etc. But this benign sounding term conceals a multitude of…
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled out almost all of Ottawa’s attempt at Senate reform that would skirt the need for a constitutional amendment. So be it (even though…
In my latest for the Globe’s ROB I explore the idea that what really makes Canada rich isn’t our natural resource endowment, but the nesting of that endowment within a…
Something quite close to the heart today: my reflections on the character and achievements of a man I greatly admired, Jim Flaherty. His death yesterday of a heart attack brought…
In my fortnightly column for the Globe’s Economy Lab (in the ROB) I take aim at those apostles of the status quo who claim there is nothing wrong with Canadian…
In my latest screed for the Globe’s ROB’s Economy Lab, I poke a little harmless fun at the mathematicians working on a NASA grant who allegedly have proved with a…
In my latest column for the Globe’s ROB I lay out the case why auto subsidies are almost never justified but, more importantly, why ensuring your economy is competitive is…
The Fraser Institute’s Mark Milke made headlines recently with his report on the vertiginous rise in spending on Aboriginal peoples by governments in recent decades. But he neglected the context,…