Matthew Lau
Columnist at Financial Post
Columnist @FinancialPost; Adjunct Scholar @FraserInstitute; Senior Fellow @AristotleFdn
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1 week ago |
financialpost.com | Matthew Lau
To protect Ontarians, government needs to let them keep more of their money and make more of their own decisionsArticle contentIn February, Doug Ford won re-election as Ontario’s premier on a promise he would “Protect Ontario” and its economy, particularly from United States tariffs. But as his government prepares to table its next budget, it should eschew the parts of its election platform that would weaken the economy rather than protect it.
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2 weeks ago |
financialpost.com | Matthew Lau |William Watson
Pierre Poilievre’s proposal to defer tax on capital gains reinvested in Canada, advertised by the Conservatives as economic “rocket fuel,” is a bold policy aimed at giving Canada’s economy a much-needed boost after the Liberals put it into a decade-long coma. But while the proposal generated some headlines and positive reviews, it did not receive all the attention it deserves.
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1 month ago |
financialpost.com | Matthew Lau
Since 2015, the federal government has kneecapped Canada’s economy with, in addition to higher taxes and profligate spending, its unending regulatory attacks on oil and gas. Its Bill C-69 in 2019 significantly expanded the regulatory burden for building pipelines and other major infrastructure, and its Bill C-48 in the same year effectively banned shipments of oil to and from ports on British Columbia’s northern coast.
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1 month ago |
financialpost.com | Matthew Lau
Having left his gig as UN Special Envoy for Climate and Finance to lead the federal Liberal government, Mark Carney is now in a position to focus his and Greta Thunberg’s global climate crusade squarely on Canada. The crusade, Carney boasted back in 2021 while in his previous role, is worth many trillions of dollars.
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1 month ago |
financialpost.com | Matthew Lau
The underlying premise of the federal government’s takeover of Canada’s child care sector is that governments, non-profits and unions can deliver child care better than entrepreneurs and private centres, even when parents prefer the latter.
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