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Author: Steve Lafleur

Steve's past work has focused primarily on housing, transportation, local government and inter-governmental fiscal relations. His current focus is on economic competitiveness of jurisdictions in the Prairie provinces.

Ontario government must avoid fiscal mistakes of its predecessors

Ontario Premier Doug Ford

The government must craft a credible short-term plan to eliminate the budget deficit rather than continuing the bipartisan habit of kicking the can down the road

Published February 18, 2021
Categorised as Viewpoint, Politics, Ontario Tagged Government debt and deficit, Ford government, Ontario economy, Ontario budget, Ontario politics

Ontario must quickly balance budget in wake of pandemic

Balance

Deficits might seem like an abstract problem for our future selves (or future generations) but in Ontario, this simply isn’t the case

Published January 13, 2021
Categorised as Viewpoint, Business, Politics, Ontario Tagged Ontario politics, Ford government, Ontario economy, Ontario budget

Ontario’s lost decade of job creation

labour weld job

Toronto and Ottawa are thriving but as long as large regions of Ontario struggle, the province and the country won’t meet their full economic potential

Published February 28, 2020
Categorised as Today, Ontario, Viewpoint, Business Tagged Toronto, The Fraser Institute, Ottawa, Jobs

Feds should stop trying to fix Canadian housing markets

That’s a job better left to municipal and provincial governments, which can actually have an impact on supply and demand

Published February 26, 2019
Categorised as Viewpoint, Politics Tagged Trudeau government, Housing

Alberta government must cut taxes to restore economy

It’s time to reform the tax code, eliminate exemptions and cut corporate subsidies, while significantly reducing spending

Published January 21, 2019
Categorised as Business, Politics, Viewpoint Tagged Taxation, Notley government, Alberta economy

Inflated employee pay at the heart of Alberta government’s debt

From wages to benefits to job security to early retirement, government employee compensation must be constrained

Published August 24, 2018
Categorised as Viewpoint, Alberta, Politics Tagged Alberta economy, Alberta politics, Alberta budget, Notley government

Alberta can’t blame the equalization system for its economic mess

Empty pockets

Undisciplined spending by successive governments is responsible for Alberta’s fiscal problems

Published July 4, 2018
Categorised as Viewpoint, Alberta, Politics Tagged Alberta economy, Equalization, Government debt and deficit, Notley government

Alberta sinks deeper into a sea of red ink

The more the government spends on servicing its debt, the less is left over for priorities that Albertans value such as health care

Published May 31, 2018
Categorised as Politics, Viewpoint, Alberta Tagged Government debt and deficit, Public sector, Alberta budget, Notley government, Alberta economy

In Florida, they’re snowbirds, in B.C., they’re speculators

Penalizing foreign homebuyers fails to address the fundamental problem: a lack of available houses

Published April 18, 2018
Categorised as Viewpoint, Politics Tagged Housing

No ray of sunshine in Alberta’s fiscal forecast

Rachel Notley seems intent on duplicating the deep-diving debt performance of former Ontario NDP leader Bob Rae

Published April 10, 2018
Categorised as Viewpoint, Politics Tagged Government debt and deficit, NDP, Alberta politics, Notley government, Alberta economy

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