It is impressive that so many think tanks and NGOs can get worked up over an esoteric issue such as shifting from a mandatory to a voluntary long-form census. While no one questions the value of information to form good…

All conservatives have been intrigued by the spat between the big-c Conservative government and the small-c conservative Fraser Institute over the effectiveness of the federal government’s $47.2-billion Economic Action Plan.

Alberta spent the better part of the last decade of the 20th century becoming the paragon of fiscal virtue.1 Following a 1993 election fought over the nature of Alberta’s spending, the Alberta government set the standard for having a clean…

The recent appreciation of the Canadian dollar has prompted calls for the Bank of Canada to intervene. The clamouring is motivated by the sentiment that a higher exchange rate is putting an unwarranted damper on economic growth and might push…

A number of armchair economic quarterbacks have taken to criticizing the federal government for accelerating the GST cut to 5 per cent earlier this year. These armchair dwellers point to the cut as wrong-headed fiscal policy and bad economic policy.