Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s tax and energy advantages are coming to a sudden end, and we should expect businesses will move more investment to the U.S.
Author: John Williamson
John Williamson has over 20 years of experience in public policy research. He was the Member of Parliament for New Brunswick Southwest until 2015. Prior to his election to the House of Commons in 2011, Mr. Williamson worked as the Director of Communications in the Office of the Prime Minister.
In 2016, Williamson launched Canadians for Affordable Energy to promote the benefits of energy affordability. He was National Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) from January 2004 to September 2008. He is a Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute.
Beer-barrel economics: what goes down stimulates the economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes A cut in beer prices in New Brunswick led to an increase in beer sales to Nova Scotia and Quebec residents
Online shopping tax exemptions penalize Canadian business
Reading Time: 3 minutes Calls to increase the duty exemption limit for online shopping would be a disaster
New Brunswick HST increase outweighs spending cuts five to one
Reading Time: 4 minutes Raising taxes to pay for more spending isn’t working; new jobs aren’t being created and subsidies to add workers can’t be sustained
Finding inspiration in Britain’s economic resourcefulness
Reading Time: 3 minutes Policy-makers in New Brunswick should emulate Britain’s economic and budget policies; instead, they raise taxes and discourage growth
Tax hike won’t solve New Brunswick’s spending problem
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government raised taxes simply to be able to spend more
New Brunswick out to prove Einstein was right
Reading Time: 3 minutes INSANITY: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result
Bad news keeps piling up for New Brunswick
Reading Time: 4 minutes From punitive tax strategies to moribund job creation to a weak education system, this provincial government seems intent on failure
Don’t blame seniors for Atlantic Canada’s economic difficulties
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead, it has too few young workers due to a slow economy, caused largetly by government policies
Why New Brunswick still won’t allow cross-border booze buying
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even in the face of a clear court ruling, the province seems intent on standing in the way of free trade