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  • Beware the punishing costs of isolationism

    This article was published in the Globe&Mail on Oct. 13, 2024 A large majority of Canadians support imposing tariffs on some Chinese products, reducing the number of temporary foreign workers and scaling down immigration. We need to recognize that closing our borders to foreign products and workers will raise our cost of living. We cannot logically applaud policies aimed…

  • There are better ways to fund universities

    This article was published in the Globe and Mail on September 18th under a different title: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-university-should-be-more-expensive-taxpayers-are-overly-subsidizing/ In response to concerns about declining university affordability, many provinces have limited tuition fee increases to below-inflation levels over the past few years, while Ontario has frozen them. This has forced universities to depend more on government funding…