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Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on Dec 16, 2010 By Jan Carr and Benjamin Dachis In attempts to stimulate the creation of “green” jobs and technologies, some jurisdictions around the world have created programs that guarantee renewable electricity generators payments per kilowatt-hour (kWh) that are much higher than market prices. This approach of paying a premium to certain generators to…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on July 13, 2010 By William Robson A battle is raging over Canada’s 2011 census. Two weeks ago, the Canada Gazette published the questions all Canadian households must answer next May – the “short form.” Absent from the announcement was the “long form” – which one-fifth of households received in the past – with its more than 50 additional questions on subjects such…
Op-Ed
Published in The Province on September 8, 2010 By Finn Poschmann As British Columbians engage in a fiery storm of words over who said what and when about sales tax reform and the harmonized sales tax, amid accusations about the import of a report I co-authored for the C.D. Howe Institute in 2008, there's something we should probably contemplate. The world is changing, and jurisdictions like…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on September 20, 2010 By Michael Hart For nearly a century, Canadian and American officials have worked together to reduce the divide created by their common border. Until 9/11, their efforts were crowned with increasing success; after 9/11, security concerns thickened the border and undermined the benefits that Canadians and Americans had come to expect from…
Op-Ed
Published in the Financial Post on November 2, 2010 By Philippe Bergevin and David Laidler The financial crisis did not begin in Canada and our monetary policy regime coped with it well. But recent events have reminded us that stable inflation does not guarantee financial stability, and have made it imperative that the 2011 monetary policy agreement between the Bank of Canada and the…
Op-Ed
Published in the Edmonton Journal on November 8, 2010 By Stuart Landon And Constance Smith The government of Alberta's revenue volatility turns ordered plans topsy-turvy. Highly variable revenues make it difficult for the government to achieve a sustainable level of spending. Instead, Alberta's spending tends to follow a boom-and-bust pattern -- expenditures rise when oil and gas prices are…