How to reduce the regulatory burden

Gordon Campbell, the premier at the time, made sure all ministers were held accountable, through a process that could be described as cabinet peer pressure, write Kevin Falcon and Mathieu Bédard of the Montreal Economic Institute.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured in a file photograph. In last year's fall economic update, the Trudeau government has expressed interest in reviewing Canada's regulatory system in a bid to improve Canada's competitiveness. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MATHIEU BéDARD AND KEVIN FALCON

February 7, 2019

Ottawa recently expressed its intention to eliminate outdated regulatory requirements. While this is a welcome admission that the Canadian regulatory burden is weighing down our competitiveness compared with the United States, it would be even better to have a concre...

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