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ICBA ECONOMICS OP/ED: Carney must work to grow Canada’s economic pie
The following piece, by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson, first ran in the Calgary Sun on Wednesday, May 7, 2025.
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Reviewing the 2025 Federal Election Platforms
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist ICBA Economics has scrutinized the election platforms of the two main parties – Mark Carney’s Liberals, and...
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ICBA ECONOMICS OP/ED: Our CleanBC challenges go well beyond the carbon tax
The following op-ed, by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson and BC Macro Brief author Ken Peacock, first appeared in Business in Vancouver on April...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: President Trump lays ruin to post-war multilateral global trading system
The following piece, by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson, was first published by the Fraser Institute on April 3, 2025.
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Energy sector will fuel Alberta economy and Canada’s exports for many years to come
The following piece, by ICBA Chief Economist Jock Finlayson for the Fraser Institute, first appeared in the Calgary Sun on April 2, 2025.
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Canada’s Job Vacancy Rates Continue to Ease… Including in Construction
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist Evidence is mounting that the job market is losing steam just as the brewing Canada-U.S. tariff war signals a...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Update on an Unwanted Trade War – Part 2
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist In a previous post, we reviewed the broad implications of the brewing Canada-U.S. trade conflict and provided...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Update on an Unwanted Trade War – Part 1
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist It is hard to keep track of the on-again, off-again cross-border tariff war with the United States that has...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Canada’s Faltering Transportation Supply Chain - The Case of Ports
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist A few years back, amid the chaos of the COVID pandemic, the federal government appointed a group of experts...
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ICBA ECONOMICS: Key Trends in B.C. Building Permits
By Jock Finlayson, ICBA Chief Economist Despite the B.C. NDP Government’s promises to ramp up housing supply, the latest building permit data tell a...