Chrystia Freeland's doublethink: Philip Cross in the Financial Post
The unrelenting decades-long focus on short-term stimulus for the economy has been at the expense of ignoring the long-term damage stimulus does to...
We’ll pay for all these down payments: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
Canadians won't like what comes next — the higher taxes that the current lack of fiscal discipline makes inevitable, writes Jack Mintz in...
Finding a Path Forward for the Energy Sector: Ken Coates for Inside Policy
Canada’s oil and gas industry had been put on a different course through Indigenous engagement, writes Ken Coates. By Ken Coates, December 2,...
High savings show government pandemic income support badly missed the mark: MLI labour market report
OTTAWA, ON (December 2, 2020): In a new study for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Munk Senior Fellow Philip Cross finds that Ottawa massively overspent...
All the green subways in the world won’t get pilots flying again: William Watson in the Financial Post
Once we have immunity to the virus, there is going to be so much pent-up demand for these currently devastated sectors that fiscal...
Liberal government is placing a daring fiscal bet with its massive deficit spending plan: Christian Lueprecht in CBC
By gambling it can get a free lunch, the federal government is making a daring fiscal bet, writes Christian Leuprecht in CBC. By...
COVID-19 Vaccine - Waiting for the Needle: Ken Coates in the Epoch Times
Far from a season of joy and celebration, Christmas 2020 could well be one of recriminations and frustration that the Government of Canada...
Are urban planners making cities unlivable? Yes: Brian Lee Crowley in the Toronto Star
The polices of urban planners are making life increasingly more difficult for people to live in cities in the way they want to,...
Keep social policy out of credit markets: Jack Mintz in the Financial Post
Social and economic policy interventions best left to fiscal and regulatory policies, most of which come under parliamentary scrutiny, writes Jack Mintz in...
Age of Decoupling: Leveraging Canada’s global energy diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific and beyond: Henry Geraedts and Shuvaloy Majumdar for Inside Policy
Canada’s world-class energy resources and national interests in global energy diplomacy must be articulated coherently and to the fullest, write Henry Geraedts and...
