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Jul 2, 2024 | 
truthonthemarket.com | Ben Sperry |John Fingleton |Aaron Wudrick
With the release of the U.S. Supreme Court’s NetChoice opinion (along with some other boring case people seem to want to talk about), opinions for the October 2023 term appear to be complete. After discussing what Murthy v. Missouri means for online speech, it only feels right to discuss the other big social-media case of the term.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
laweconcenter.org | Geoffrey Manne |Dirk Auer |Aaron Wudrick |Mario Zúñiga
Regulatory CommentsExecutive SummaryWe thank the Competition Bureau Canada for promoting this dialogue on competition and artificial intelligence (AI) by publishing its Artificial Intelligence and Competition Discussion Paper (“Discussion Paper”)[1]. The International Center for Law & Economics (“ICLE”) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan global research and policy center founded with the goal of building the intellectual foundations for sensible, economically grounded policy.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
truthonthemarket.com | Eric Fruits |John Fingleton |Ben Sperry |Aaron Wudrick
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recently enacted rules to prevent so-called “digital discrimination” in broadband access are facing a significant legal challenge in the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Earlier this week, the U.S. Justice Department and the FCC submitted their brief on the matter. Now that the parties have made their “opening arguments” in the case, let’s look at the key issues in dispute.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
truthonthemarket.com | Gus Hurwitz |Aaron Wudrick |Ben Sperry |Daniel Gilman
This essay began as a response to claims that the argument that Chevron encourages congressional inaction has been refuted by the best available evidence. That Chevron causes such inaction is one of the arguments made by petitioners in Loper Bright. Leading scholars reject the argument.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
truthonthemarket.com | Aaron Wudrick |Ben Sperry |Daniel Gilman |Alden Abbott
I’m a lawyer by profession, but have taken a somewhat unconventional career path—I started as a litigator in a small general practice in my hometown outside Toronto, moved on to corporate law with one the world’s biggest law firms in London, Hong Kong, and Ahu Dhabi, and then came back to Canada, where I moved through roles in polling and market research, lobbying, and tax advocacy.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
todayville.com | Aaron Wudrick
Author: Gage HaubrichThe Canadian Taxpayers Federation released Leger polling showing 70 per cent of Canadians support a carbon tax exemption on propane and natural gas for farmers. “The poll is clear: the vast majority of Canadians want the government to get farmers relief from the carbon tax,” said Gage Haubrich, CTF Prairie Director.
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May 31, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Aaron Wudrick |Conrad Black
Summers in Ottawa are usually pretty steamy, but the summer of 2024 promises to be positively hellish and discontented as public sector unions rattle their sabres in response to the federal government’s directive that starting this fall, federal civil servants will be expected to work in the office three days a week instead of two.
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May 31, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Kirk LaPointe |Aaron Wudrick
Two months before the 2013 B.C. election, Vancouver’s Province newspaper ran a front-page photo of front-running BC NDP leader Adrian Dix headlined: “If this man kicked a dog, he’d still win the election.”It’s possible Dix read that and kicked his way through an entire kennel, but before long the puppy lovers and much of the province roused from its sleep. Memories of a shambolic NDP government years earlier were still fresh.
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May 23, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Aaron Wudrick
Open this photo in gallery:A worker checks products at a pasta factory on March 28.AHMET OGUZ CAPAN/ReutersPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountAaron Wudrick is the domestic policy director at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Last week, the federal government announced a $1.7-million subsidy for a pasta manufacturer in Brampton, Ont., citing the creation of 10 jobs.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Aaron Wudrick
The saga of Bombardier, once a symbol of Canadian pride, is a sobering one. Joseph-Armand Bombardier, who founded the company in 1942, was a great Canadian inventor and entrepreneur. But over time, the company that bears his name morphed into the poster child for corporate welfare in Canada, becoming utterly dependent on using its outsized political clout to browbeat successive governments into funneling them perpetual taxpayer largesse.
