Ontario government must avoid fiscal mistakes of its predecessors
Reading Time: 3 minutes The government must craft a credible short-term plan to eliminate the budget deficit rather than continuing…
Ontario must quickly balance budget in wake of pandemic
Reading Time: 3 minutes Deficits might seem like an abstract problem for our future selves (or future generations) but in…
Ontario’s lost decade of job creation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Toronto and Ottawa are thriving but as long as large regions of Ontario struggle, the province…
Feds should stop trying to fix Canadian housing markets
Reading Time: 3 minutes That’s a job better left to municipal and provincial governments, which can actually have an impact…
Alberta government must cut taxes to restore economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to reform the tax code, eliminate exemptions and cut corporate subsidies, while significantly reducing…
Inflated employee pay at the heart of Alberta government’s debt
Reading Time: 3 minutes From wages to benefits to job security to early retirement, government employee compensation must be constrained
Alberta can’t blame the equalization system for its economic mess
Reading Time: 3 minutes Undisciplined spending by successive governments is responsible for Alberta’s fiscal problems
Alberta sinks deeper into a sea of red ink
Reading Time: 3 minutes The more the government spends on servicing its debt, the less is left over for priorities…
In Florida, they’re snowbirds, in B.C., they’re speculators
Reading Time: 3 minutes Penalizing foreign homebuyers fails to address the fundamental problem: a lack of available houses
No ray of sunshine in Alberta’s fiscal forecast
Reading Time: 3 minutes Rachel Notley seems intent on duplicating the deep-diving debt performance of former Ontario NDP leader Bob…