How the 1% is torquing our debates about inequality: Sean Speer in the Financial Post
Misperception abounds about the much-pilloried top "1%" of income earners, writes Sean Speer. The 1%, far from an immovable caste, ...
Tag: Financial Post
The curious case of Canada’s surging GDP: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
Philip Cross, in the Financial Post, dives into the shocking rise in Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) to start 2016. ...
Ottawa’s FutureSkills Lab is another economic central planning mistake: Sean Speer in the Financial Post
Ottawa's plan for a FutureSkills Lab, a new bureaucratic organization devoted to skills development, is more evidence that the technocratic ...
Why the US is getting it right by opposing minimum wage hikes: Philip Cross in the Post
Do minimum wage laws help achieve the goal of less poverty? Does it make sense to impose on businesses the ...
There’s no denying the economic costs of green energy: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
It is naïve or wilfully misleading to pretend there is an overall economic benefit from the higher costs that cling to ...
Policy-makers refuse to accept that stimulus is failing: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
The reasons for the failure of stimulus should be a lesson to policy-makers that simply administering more of the same ineffective ...
Give regulators final say on pipelines, Crowley urges in the Financial Post
Regulators, not politicians, should be the ultimate arbiter of whether major energy projects like pipelines should go ahead, Brian Lee ...
Governments’ stimulus addiction squandering tools needed to fix next big crash: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
Neverending stimulus is not only ineffective, writes Philip Cross, it’s sowing the seeds of the next big financial crash. By ...
Governments no help with Canada’s dragging economy: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
Government policies are making Canada’s struggling economy even worse, writes Philip Cross in the Financial Post. By Philip Cross, Sept. ...
Rooting Ottawa’s economic plan in the right ideas starts with a look at our past: Sean Speer for the Financial Post
Finance Minister Bill Morneau, as he lays the foundations for a new economic blueprint for Canada, would do well to ...
Pipelines trump deficit spending as economic kickstarter: Brian Lee Crowley and Sean Speer in the Financial Post
Clearing the way for more pipelines to be built – not a plunge into deficit spending – is the best way for ...
The ugly truth behind the plan to expand the Canada Pension Plan: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
Forcing all Canadians to contribute to an expanded Canada Pension Plan is just a backdoor way to make up for ...
-
Unfortunately for Canadian consumers and creators, the Online Streaming Act is performing exactly as predicted: Peter Menzies in the Hub
-
Mexican cartels are a direct threat to Canada’s public safety, and the future of North American trade: Gary J. Hale for Inside Policy
-
Canadians are very unhappy with the federal public service—and for good reason: Tim Sargent in The Hub
-
An economist on Ottawa’s GST holiday. Spoiler alert – Santa Claus is not real: Tim Sargent in the Globe and Mail
-
Canada is an energy superpower. It’s time to remind America and act like it: Heather Exner-Pirot in The Hub
