The Hub Taylor Jackson Succinct yet compelling case for the new government to fix Canada’s backslide in defence and its support for its allies. I agree there’s a real opportunity now for Canada to rethink its positions and stand with its allies in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and around the world.

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I’m even prepared to give him a pass on the question about lower prices—it’s a challenging one for most politicians for obvious reasons. It’s his diagnosis of the problem that is worrying. We may or may not need more affordable (or social) housing. I’ll leave it to others to

"Regardless of how many manufacturing jobs the China shock destroyed, the United States remains a manufacturing powerhouse. The U.S. manufacturing sector’s real output grew rapidly from 2000-2007 and is currently at its all-time high. This is due largely to the fact that

Oh, I see, we are quoting Hayek now

Hayek’s point is about the fallacy that planners can plan scientifically an economy. Its hubris and its wrongheaded. That included planning via tariffs, industrial policy, industrial subsidies, etc. You know, all the stuff Oren Cass wants.

.Sean Speer and Taylor Jackson: Slow economic growth is the biggest challenge facing Canada. The Hunter Prize for Public Policy is here to solve it Find out more about the Hunter Prize here: thehub.ca/hunter-prize/ Full article here: thehub.ca/2025/06/02/sea…

Today marks the launch of this year’s Hunter Prize for Public Policy. Thanks to the generosity of the Hunter Family Foundation, the Hunter Prize awards up to $50,000 in cash prizes for bold, innovative policy ideas that address a “wicked problem” facing Canada. In Years 1 and

.Sean Speer and Taylor Jackson: Slow economic growth is the biggest challenge facing Canada. The Hunter Prize for Public Policy is here to solve it. Find out more about the Hunter Prize here: thehub.ca/hunter-prize/ Full article here: thehub.ca/2025/06/02/sea…

ICYMI: Sean Speer and Taylor Jackson: Slow economic growth is the biggest challenge facing Canada. The Hunter Prize for Public Policy is here to solve it Find out more about the Hunter Prize here: thehub.ca/hunter-prize/ Full article here: thehub.ca/2025/06/02/sea…

Today my colleagues and I came across a woman lying in a pool of her own blood at the front door of a clothing shop on Toronto’s Queen Street. As we assisted and I wished I had remembered more of the first aid class I’d taken years ago, her colleague told me she had tried to

I commend the boldness of this announcement. Both Liberal and Conservative governments have underfunded national defence for far too long. (Yes, that includes the government in which I served as Minister of National Defence.) The challenge is implementation. As we saw during

So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

“The problem is that many of the remedies proposed by neoliberalism’s critics—industrial policy, protectionism, widespread subsidies, stringent capital controls, and other forms of economic nationalism—risk making things worse. Some may reduce inequality at the margins, but

Canada’s last serious bout of economic nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s was mostly a left-wing movement. It took a quarter century or longer to unwind the inefficiencies and distortions that it caused. As I wrote for City Journal this week, there’s a big risk that the next

The Liberal government's shakedown of American tech firms, through Bill C-11, C-18, and all the other nonsense designed to subsidize their client groups of failing artists and journalists, has been disastrous. The Liberals assumed the Americans would never notice, but they have.

The Digital Services Tax is bad on its own terms   In light of Donald Trump’s social media announcement that he’s ending trade negotiations with Canada over the federal government’s stubborn insistence on its Digital Services Tax (DST), we must remember that the DST isn’t just

Are you interested in public policy? The Hub’s Hunter Prize for Public Policy is offering $50,000 in cash prizes for policy ideas to boost Canada’s economy. The deadline for submissions is August 3. Theo Argitis Hon. Lisa MacCormack Raitt P.C. Dr. Jack Mintz Frances Donald Alicia Planincic

There's suddenly a lot of talk about tax increases and spending cuts in Ottawa. This has to be understood as an unfortunate yet predictable consequence of Trudeau-era fiscal policy. Increasing program spending by 110% over a decade through large-scale borrowing has necessarily

‘More continuity than change’: Trevor Tombe, Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅, William Robson (C.D. Howe Institute), Falice Chin, Taylor Jackson, Theo Argitis, Rachel Samson, and Steve Lafleur react to Mark Carney’s big-spending budget thehub.ca/2025/11/05/mor…