Memo to the Conservatives on climate policy: ’Take the money, dammit!’
Why reducing greenhouse gases via regulations is the worst of both worlds
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Stephen Gordon
Stephen Gordon is an economics professor at l’Université Laval in Quebec City. He started the blog Worthwhile Canadian Initiative in 2005 and has been blogging about economics ever since.
Petronas: Can Ottawa pls explain why it needs absolute discretionary power on foreign takeovers?
Because if it can’t explain, maybe it doesn’t really need it
David Suzuki versus the economists
Stephen Gordon on the puzzling smear campaign by the Most Trusted Canadian
How boomers are weighing down the employment rate
Population aging is affecting the recovery
The Finance Dept. finally agrees with the PBO: it’s a structural deficit
It wasn’t just the recession
Time for the Conservatives to let go of the ’job-killing carbon tax’ talking point
(and for the NDP to stop believing in it)
NDP MP Pat Martin, ’economic treason’ and anti-foreign bias
Stephen Gordon on a misguided belief as old as the world
Guess who’s a Nexen shareholder? CPP.
And guess who loses out if the takeover deal is rejected? (You.)
Taxing high earners is harder than it looks: Quebec edition
Memo to the PQ: there aren’t that many Quebecers in the top-income brackets
The ’net benefit’ criterion for foreign investment is meaningless
Making it mean something will make things worse