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BC’s economy and the Liberal platform
With my oped last week on the NDP platform making me less than popular over at NDP HQ, today the Sun published my take on…
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BC’s Carbon Tax Clash
With the BC election campaign now officially on, the carbon tax debate is back. Since the fall’s federal election, when the Prime Minister dropped in…
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Is funnelling money into shovel-ready projects the best strategy for infrastructure development?
I often get asked: “Shouldn’t we support the Olympics or the Port Mann bridge (or any of the multitude of poorly handled infrastructure projects in…
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The wrong kind of stimulus
I am a big fan of stimulus packages for our ailing economy. But my pitch has been that we need to use the occasion to…
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Beggar-thy-neighbour politics in Metro Vancouver
Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts made the news this week calling for property-tax-free zones in Surrey to attract new business to her city. Of course, in…
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And Another Thing About the Port Mann non-P3
Now that the government has abandoned private financing of the Port Mann, it’s time to make the bigger but equally sensible leap and abandon the…
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Cancelled P3 saves $200 million
Wow. Things can change pretty quickly in a day. Apparently the Port Mann Bridge P3 was just too ridiculous. Jeff Nagel already has a very…
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Death of a P3
And so the P3 financing deal for the Port Mann Super-Bridge died, conveniently right when it will get the least media coverage. Here’s the breaking…
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They don’t pay taxes in Surrey? Who knew?
Transportation Minister Keven Falcon had letters to the editor this week in both the Vancouver Sun and the Times Colonist saying, “The new Port Mann…
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Forensic auditors say P3s expensive, biased and secret
So who are you going to believe about public private partnerships (P3s)? One side of the debate says they’re swell. They save money for taxpayers,…
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