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Matthew Lau

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Matthew Lau est un auteur spécialisé en économie à Toronto, au Canada. Ses textes d’opinion apparaissent régulièrement dans les pages du Financial Post, où il a écrit sur la politique fiscale, le changement climatique et la réglementation de l’emploi, ainsi que sur des sujets plus légers tels que l’économie du pourboire dans les restaurants. Ses textes ont également été publiés dans le Toronto Sun et dans d’autres publications à travers le Canada. Matthew est co-auteur d’un livre sur les politiques fiscales à l’Institut Fraser intitulé End of the Chretien Consensus? Il est titulaire d’un baccalauréat en commerce, avec une spécialisation en finance et économie, de l’Université de Toronto.

6 novembre 2021

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

On economics, Ford is the new Wynne

Advocates claim minimum wage hikes help workers, but evidence shows quite the opposite.

15 octobre 2021

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

Government spending puts the economy at risk

In order to improve economic health and Canadians’ standard of living, the government needs to break its expensive campaign promises and cancel the new spending.

24 juillet 2021

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

For less discrimination, more capitalism

One of the favourite myths peddled by proponents of government control is that under the free-market system, discrimination is rife and leads to unfair outcomes for minorities, women, and other groups.

12 juin 2021

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

Milton Friedman still trumps Klaus Schwab

People shouldn’t be fooled by the visions of Klaus Schwab and others who dream of a better, greener, and more equal “stakeholder” capitalism.

1 mai 2021

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

More federal labour regulations mean fewer jobs

The government cannot help workers by limiting their options. Unfortunately, the Liberals propose to do just that by expanding employment regulations.

3 avril 2021

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

Tear down Canada’s interprovincial trade barriers

It is long past time that politicians caught up to economists on the free trade issue and eliminated interprovincial (and international) trade barriers.

15 mars 2021

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

The NDP’s flawed case for wealth taxes

When it comes to wealth taxes, the sensible course of action is to ignore the NDP, whose case for the tax is full of holes.

22 février 2021

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

Monopoly school systems make even less sense now

Provincial governments in Ontario and across Canada should follow the example of states in the U.S. that have in the past year delivered the wider access to school choice that families want for their children.

18 janvier 2021

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

Here’s why Canada’s climate targets are nonsense

There is a consensus in Ottawa that Canada must transition to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Here’s the problem, though: Emissions targets are economic nonsense.

12 décembre 2020

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

Pandemic policy overkill will do long-term harm

The massive spending increases, especially by the federal government, on things that have nothing to do with the pandemic, and the overly restrictive lockdowns by provincial governments, are not reasonable at all.

14 novembre 2020

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

Save on police budgets with private sector help

It does not make sense, especially now with public finances under pressure, to keep asking police to do things that can be done for less money by private sector civilians.

6 octobre 2020

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

How government subsidies cause economic destruction

In his 1946 book Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt observed that “government ‘encouragement’ to business is sometimes as much to be feared as government hostility.”

10 septembre 2020

Temps de lecture moyen : 3 minutes

Betting billions on economic ignorance

By replacing knowledge with ignorance, the certain results of the current plans to expand government programs will be slower economic growth, more poverty, and a pile of debt for taxpayers of this and future generations.