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Matthew Lau: To help Canada grow, cut the federal workforce

Matthew Lau: To help Canada grow, cut the federal workforce
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Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Disaster #1 or Disaster #2 for Liberal leader?

Matthew Lau: Disaster #1 or Disaster #2 for Liberal leader?
22.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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LAU: Toronto taxpayers are getting mugged

LAU: Toronto taxpayers are getting mugged
18.01.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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LAU: Toronto taxpayers are getting mugged

18.01.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Matthew Lau: The Competition Bureau should leave airlines alone

Matthew Lau: The Competition Bureau should leave airlines alone
16.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: CRA hates everyone, not just Leafs and Jays

Matthew Lau: CRA hates everyone, not just Leafs and Jays
15.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Let the market, not competition bureaucrats, police 'greenwashing'

Matthew Lau: Let the market, not competition bureaucrats, police 'greenwashing'
09.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Lessons for Canada in Argentina's newly freed markets

Javier Milei's radical liberalization of large parts of Argentina's economy is bearing fruit, with prices stabilized and supplies rising You can...

03.01.2025 2

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Federal tax policy will not be kind to Canadians in 2025

Slated increases in CPP, carbon and capital gains taxes will only worsen the country's growth, productivity and standard of living crises You can...

02.01.2025 3

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: It’s looking like our own Winter of Discontent

Nothing is working and economic productivity is in the dumps, especially when it comes to things that are government-run and controlled You can...

19.12.2024 5

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Canada's Trudeau-induced economic coma

No matter what metric you look at — GDP, business investment, jobs, taxes, crime or identity politics — the figures are grim You can save this...

16.12.2024 5

National Post

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What the data really says about “systemic racism” in Canada

13.12.2024 8

Troy Media

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LAU: Education, not racism, drives the difference in earnings between races

Author of the article: You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Significant federal program...

12.12.2024 4

Winnipeg Sun

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Matthew Lau: Tesla shareholders want Elon Musk to have his money. Enough said

After a judge decided Musk shouldn't get what he's owed, Tesla shareholders voted that he should. It's their money. Let them pay him You can save...

11.12.2024 3

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Child care is for kids, not labour market statistics

A new study of the impact of federal daycare counts wages, salaries and construction expenses as economics benefits of daycare, not costs You can...

04.12.2024 5

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: The only way to save Canada Post is to privatize it

Canadians are paying a triple price: disruption of service during strikes, price-gouging on letter delivery and taxpayer exposure to losses You can...

27.11.2024 6

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Trudeau offers more ridiculous nonsense on the economy

The PM says worrying about the economy is for bankers. But the two million Canadians who used food banks last year have every reason to worry You...

27.11.2024 5

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Schools should stop teaching lies about capitalism

The truth about capitalism is not oppression but the highest living standards our species has ever known. Kids should learn about that You can save...

20.11.2024 6

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: How Toronto grooms kids to be climate activists

From K through 12 they can apply for up to $1,000 for climate education projects. Just don't buy a plastic water bottle with the money You can save...

13.11.2024 5

Financial Post

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Evidence unveils the downsides of DEI and affirmative action

09.11.2024 4

Troy Media

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Matthew Lau: Doug Ford is partying like Kathleen Wynne

Given the crazy-high economic cost of raising money with taxes, Ontario's new spending needs to bring crazy-high benefits. It doesn't You can save...

06.11.2024 3

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Evidence shows why TMU medical school's race-based admissions policy is doomed to failure

Treating people differently based on race doesn’t improve social harmony — or any other outcomes You can save this article by registering for...

03.11.2024 2

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Trudeau’s new ‘climate disclosures’ another investment killer

The government says putting a price on carbon emissions is the best way to fight climate change. So why all its other meddling in business? You can...

01.11.2024 3

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Charter-school competition aids public schools, too

Recent studies show taxpayers win from lower costs while both charter- and public-school students do better when parents have choice You can save...

30.10.2024 3

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Government-run daycare is a disaster. Is anyone surprised?

Ottawa's takeover threatens to put private providers out of business. This week in Ontario, the sector is fighting back You can save this article...

21.10.2024 2

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Fifty years on, a Nobel lecture everyone should read on why central planning always fails

Half a century ago, laureate Friedrich Hayek delivered what may be the greatest Nobel lecture of all You can save this article by registering for...

16.10.2024 1

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Barely half of Ontario's students meet math standards

Despite higher education budgets and the hiring of more teachers, Ontario students' test scores have stabilized — at unacceptably low levels You...

09.10.2024 4

Financial Post

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LAU: Numbers don't lie — under Trudeau crime up significantly in Toronto and across Canada

09.10.2024 4

Calgary Sun

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LAU: Numbers don't lie — under Trudeau crime up significantly in Toronto and across Canada

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. It’s no secret that politicians often cherry-pick...

09.10.2024 6

Toronto Sun

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LAU: Numbers don't lie — under Trudeau crime up significantly in Toronto and across Canada

09.10.2024 5

Ottawa Sun

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Matthew Lau: When social justice trumps the three Rs

Many Toronto schools' mission statements put more emphasis on wellness and social justice than on reading, writing and arithmetic You can save this...

02.10.2024 3

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Canadians' life satisfaction and the Liberal vote sag in sync

Two big changes since 2021 seem connected: Canadians are feeling lousier and less hopeful and Liberal support is tanking You can save this article...

25.09.2024 2

Financial Post

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LAU: Trudeau’s green policies will do more harm than good

Through a variety of regulatory and spending initiatives, the Trudeau government is expanding its control over our lives, often in the name of...

25.09.2024 5

Edmonton Sun

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LAU: Trudeau’s green policies will do more harm than good

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Through a variety of regulatory and spending...

25.09.2024 1

Toronto Sun

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LAU: Trudeau’s green policies will do more harm than good

25.09.2024 2

Ottawa Sun

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Matthew Lau: No, Ottawa, getting grants does not equal entrepreneurship

The federal government seems to think the road to productivity growth is paved with grants, subsidies and entrepreneurship bureaucrats You can save...

18.09.2024 3

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Reasons to question child-care studies that sing Ottawa's tune

Recent studies funded at least in part by the feds find that problems with government control of daycare require ... more government control You...

11.09.2024 7

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Don't believe Freeland when she says her 'economic plan is working'

Our economy is in tatters — and Canadians know it You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. When...

09.09.2024 2

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Liberals' productivity 'working group' shows why Canada isn't producing

Asking civil servants and union reps how to boost productivity is like asking the Toronto Maple Leafs how to win the Stanley Cup You can save this...

04.09.2024 2

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: New university admissions data reveal affirmative action’s harms

After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in admissions, MIT is letting in more Asian-American students You can save this article...

28.08.2024 1

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Railway unions have far too much power

The federal government has made it much too easy for them to hold Canada hostage You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in...

26.08.2024 2

National Post

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Lau: Canada's federal public service is expanding rapidly — at your expense

Across the economy there’s massive bureaucratic expansion to fulfil political demands while the private sector, which fulfils consumer demands...

23.08.2024 3

Ottawa Citizen

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Matthew Lau: Minorities don’t need unions in order to prosper

Racial groups with lower union coverage tend to earn higher wages, according to a new report You can save this article by registering for free...

20.08.2024 1

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: To get Chinese rates of economic growth, privatize like China

Central planning isn't the key to China's economic success. The productivity gain from privatizing 'zombie' public corporations is You can save...

14.08.2024 3

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Liberals’ anti-Poilievre website highlights his policy strengths

A website meant to denigrate the Conservative leader's record in fact shows he supports better policies for Canada than they do You can save this...

07.08.2024 4

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: For Milton Friedman’s birthday let’s give ourselves freer markets

The great economist was born on July 31, 1912. Let's celebrate by heeding his thinking, which is even more important this century than last You can...

31.07.2024 7

Financial Post

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LAU: Alberta awash in corporate welfare

As Ottawa impedes private investment, its latest bundle of economic development announcements underscores its strategy to have government take the...

24.07.2024 1

Winnipeg Sun

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LAU: Alberta awash in corporate welfare

24.07.2024 1

Calgary Sun

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Matthew Lau: Union bosses are anti-worker — Donald Trump should know this

Organized labour supports taking away rights, and endorses regulations that keep non-unionized workers from competing You can save this article by...

22.07.2024 2

National Post

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