I was just starting my career as an economist at the time Trudeau the Elder was ruining the Canadian economy. From an economic perspective, the Elder did many strange things,
It seems each new day brings a fresh new crisis. These take the form of problems that the progressives believe must be dealt with, or the consequences will be extremely
Political correctness has slowly but surely taken over us all. A family friend recently sent a text that contained the phrase “my silly First World problems,” and on a recent
Remember the Energy East pipeline? Here was a good idea that would have benefited the economy. However, after many court cases and many protests, the idea just had to die.
I should be used to this by now, but each time another government moves to mess up the economy, I am once again astounded. To say that the third budget
The federal Liberals have always been able to overcome their lack of ability to formulate consistent policy by use of tightly-controlled marketing. I can still remember Pierre Trudeau, who was
The divisive, confusing debate around minimum wage laws is continuing in 2018. As provincial minimum wages increase across the country, including here in Alberta, the proponents of the minimum wage
It is 2018, and it seems like such a long time ago when oil prices collapsed (2014), we elected the NDP provincially (2015) and then the federal Liberals (2015). I
John Maynard Keynes is often called the father of macroeconomics. If macroeconomics is summed up by the belief that without government spending the economy will collapse, then he is probably
In early October, TransCanada announced it was abandoning the Energy East pipeline. The Trudeau administration responded to this in the usual manner, by issuing an astonishingly naive statement. This job
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