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Matthew Lau: Stop central-planning the auto industry

Matthew Lau: Stop central-planning the auto industry
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Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Poilievre's sensible solution to Liberal daycare nightmare

Matthew Lau: Poilievre's sensible solution to Liberal daycare nightmare

Conservative leader borrows from Harper to give choice back to parents

27.03.2025 10

National Post

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Matthew Lau: We must stop kneecapping the economy

Matthew Lau: We must stop kneecapping the economy
26.03.2025 10

Financial Post

Matthew Lau

Matthew Lau: Carney is as climate crazy as Guilbeault

Matthew Lau: Carney is as climate crazy as Guilbeault
19.03.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Trump compounds the existing stupidity on dairy tariffs

Matthew Lau: Trump compounds the existing stupidity on dairy tariffs
13.03.2025 10

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Is Carney just like Justin or lots like Kathleen (Wynne)?

Matthew Lau: Is Carney just like Justin or lots like Kathleen (Wynne)?
12.03.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Government and union control is ruining daycare in Canada

05.03.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: The free market can protect us from Trump, but only if we let it

04.03.2025 10

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Mark Carney is nothing like Paul Martin

03.03.2025 20

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Trimming foreign aid would be good Canadian policy

26.02.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Carney's spending plan would put even Trudeau to shame

Separating 'operating' and 'capital' budgets is merely a ruse

21.02.2025 10

National Post

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Matthew Lau: Red tape is strangling Canada’s economy

21.02.2025 8

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Political bribes are all cost and little, if any, benefit

19.02.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Minimum wages are even more harmful than we thought

12.02.2025 8

Financial Post

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LAU: TTC could use a healthy dose of private-sector help

06.02.2025 5

Toronto Sun

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LAU: TTC could use a healthy dose of private-sector help

05.02.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Matthew Lau: Trying a new flavour of politics

05.02.2025 10

Financial Post

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Matthew Lau: Combat Trump protectionism by doing away with our own trade barriers

03.02.2025 10

National Post

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

29.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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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

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

16.01.2025 10

Financial Post

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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'

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 4

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 4

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 6

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 4

Financial Post

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

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Significant federal program spending is premised on the...

09.12.2024 6

National 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 8

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 4

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 free...

03.11.2024 4

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 4

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 4

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 3

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 3

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 5

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 4

Financial Post

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