The current push for unionization among some food couriers at Foodora Canada, and also among hundreds of Uber drivers in Canada, will ultimately do more harm than good for workers in the “gig economy.” The reason is that the drive for unionization is a drive for...
Matthew Lau
Economic Lessons from Milton Friedman
Were he still alive today, Milton Friedman would celebrate his 107th birthday on July 31. An intellectual giant, his ideas played a significant role in making the world a freer and more prosperous place – from driving the elimination of military conscription in the...
Does paying $102 per tonne carbon tax sound good to you?
The Parliamentary Budget Office has estimated that reaching Canada’s carbon emissions reduction targets by 2030 would require a carbon tax of $102 per tonne. Since economists generally agree that a carbon tax is the least costly way for governments to reduce...
Workplace Regulations Don’t Help Workers
A main priority of Alberta’s United Conservative government, given the province’s relatively high unemployment rate over the past few years, is job creation. It’s right there in the Alberta Premier's two-line Twitter biography: “Premier of Alberta. Focused on getting...
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The Swedish Response to Covid-19 versus Canada
In a recent New York Times article, David Wallace Wells asked, “How did No-Mandate Sweden End up with such an average pandemic”. Let’s be clear. This admission from the New York Times, who tried to destroy the response to Covid-19, starting in April 2020 and...
Draconian, Anti-Science Measures During the Pandemic Has Led to Loss of Trust in Our Institutions
Candida Auris is a fungus that, unlike most fungi, can survive in a human body. It is capable of spreading within the body, resulting in an agonizing death. For unknown reasons the fungus is spreading at a rather alarming rate. So far, cases have been confined to long...
The Evidence on Minimum Wages
One of the most contentious policy debates in recent years is the minimum wage. Opponents of raising the minimum wage say it will result in job losses, because making it more expensive to hire workers means businesses will hire fewer workers. But some supporters of...
What Protects Workers From Being Exploited by Businesses?
Some people think it’s the government that protects workers, through minimum wage laws and regulations that ensure workers get a decent living wage and good working conditions. But in reality, minimum wages and labour regulations don’t protect workers at all. Quite...
Against the Minimum Wage
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released a new research paper, Against the Minimum Wage. This research paper is authored by Matthew Lau, a research associate with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper reviews the negative effects of rising...