Reading Time: 3 minutes Investment makes workers more productive, creates better jobs and drives income growth. Fracking offers a simple, safe solution
Author: Marco Navarro-Genie
Premiers the barrier to free trade within Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our premiers regularly meet to discuss liberalizing trade. Year after year, decade after decade, nothing concrete is ever accomplished
Federal carbon tax seems destined to fail
Reading Time: 3 minutes P.E.I. has added itself to the list of carbon tax opponents, following Premier Doug Ford of Ontario. And the list is growing
Canada’s push for unfettered trade should begin at home
Reading Time: 3 minutes Supply management is protectionism by another name. And domestic protectionism shouldn’t be ignored as we seek freer trade
Carbon tax particularly dangerous to New Brunswick
Reading Time: 3 minutes The tax will slow the already-faltering New Brunswick economy and create a competitive disadvantage with U.S. businesses
Let private enterprise retail cannabis in Nova Scotia
Reading Time: 3 minutes A private retail model offers more entrepreneurship overall and better distribution, particularly in rural areas
Gasoline price-fixing harms Atlantic Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Controls were intended to ease consumer anger over rare but large price fluctuations. But government isn’t meant to be an anger management therapist
Minimum wage prices low-skilled workers out of a job
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments should abolish the fruitless minimum wage if they want to do right by young and low-income persons
Canada 150 a time for reflection and renewed commitment
Reading Time: 3 minutes We have much to be proud of: a multilingual and cosmopolitan democracy, strong international friendships and a generous view of others. But challenges await
Atlantic Canada’s oversized public sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes Money can be saved by paring the size of the public sector, finding efficiencies, privatizing some services and controlling wages