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Op-Ed
Published in the National Post on March 6, 2013
By Colin Busby & Alexandre Laurin
In the 1980s, during a time of large provincial deficits, Alberta premier Don Getty famously quipped that the difficulty of restraining spending after years of unrelenting growth was akin to “turning the Queen Mary.” The phrase undoubtedly resonates with Alberta’s fiscal planners today.
This week’s…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe & Mail on March 20, 2013
By Finn Poschmann
Every once in a while, budget day brings something truly big that people fail to appreciate until much later.
Something big happened with Canadians’ savings in the 2009 budget, when tax-free savings accounts appeared. The change has repercussions that will reverberate, mostly to the good, for generations to come and will…
Op-Ed
Published in the Edmonton Journal on March 20, 2013
By Steve Morgan
The Alberta government has announced major pharmacare reforms: the province is planning to move from a system where public drug coverage is available mainly for seniors to a system where coverage will be restricted for all citizens based on income.
Experience from other provinces suggests income-based pharmacare will not pan out…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on November 23, 2013
By Finn Poschmann
The coming byelection in Toronto Centre, contested by two champions of greater equality, Chrystia Freeland and Linda McQuaig, has proven a jumping off point for a new round of handwringing over the rich and poor, and the distance between them.
Toronto Centre, you see, contains Rosedale and Regent Park, meaning the…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on December 12, 2013
By Benjamin Dachis
Worse service, higher prices. Most businesses would go bankrupt with that sales pitch. Yet Canada Post, our government-owned letter-mail monopoly, made it by announcing it will cut household delivery and hike stamp prices.
Rather than focus on cutting service and raising prices, Canada needs real postal reform that…
Op-Ed
Published in the Globe and Mail on February 13, 2013
by Finn Poschmann
Last Friday’s non-bubbly housing start numbers and weak employment data should not distract Canadians from two key points. First, after a short, sharp economic shock, Canada’s economy began its recovery in late spring 2009 and has hardly paused since. Second, in comparison with the U.S., the EU, and especially the U.K, Canada’…
