Philip Cross

Philip Cross is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He is also a member of the Business Cycle Dating Committee at the CD Howe Institute. Before that, he spent 36 years at Statistics Canada, the last few as its Chief Economic Analyst.

In a tariff war, Canada’s resources are our strategic advantage

Canadians are realizing that it’s easier to expand existing overseas markets for commodities than develop new ones for manufactured goods.

opinion | BY PHILIP CROSS | February 25, 2026

Government must help businesses, not just households, to sustain economic recovery

opinion | BY PHILIP CROSS | July 13, 2020

What’s wrong with a Great Rebuilding of the economy post-COVID-19

opinion | BY PHILIP CROSS | June 15, 2020

Philip Cross

In a tariff war, Canada’s resources are our strategic advantage

Government must help businesses, not just households, to sustain economic recovery

What’s wrong with a Great Rebuilding of the economy post-COVID-19

Infrastructure programs rarely stimulate growth

Time to build a national transportation corridor

Concerns about a so-called retirement income ‘crisis’ overblown