Jason Clemens

Clemens focuses on financial policy as the Director of research and strategic development at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. He believes in the limited powers of government and supports tax cuts.

He is director of research and strategic development at the Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco. In July 2009, he was tipped to be the new executive director of the Fraser Institute.

He is linked to the University of Windsor, Simon Fraser University, Institute of Chartered Bankers, Canadian Securities Course and the Fraser Institute. "The Difference between labour and unions, the US and Canada"

Publications

Books

• Niels Veldhuis (Author), Jason Clemens (Author), Brian Lee Crowley (Author), The Canadian Century, published by eBookIt.com, 10 May 2011.
• Jason Clemens, Editor of The Impact and Cost of Taxation in Canada by Daniel Mitchell, Patrick Basham, Milagros Palacios, Alvin Rabushka, Francois Vaillancourt, Niels Veldhuis, Kumi Harischandra, published by The Fraser Institute, 18 February 2008.

Articles

2014

• Jason Clemens, 'What Kevin O'Leary Gets Wrong About Business', Huffington Post, 15 May 2014.
• Sean Peer & Jason Clemens, 'Ontario Usurps California's Role as Poster Child for Debt', Huffington Post, 20 March 2014.
• Jason Clemens & Niels Veldhuis, 'Today's Liberals Could Ruin Canada', Huffington Post, 26 February 2014.

2013

• Jason Clemens, 'Technology Should Revolutionize Education', Huffington Post, 26 August 2013.
• Jason Clemens, 'Tough Times Ahead For The BC Liberals', Huffington Post, 16 May 2013.
• Jason Clemens, 'CUPE Prefers Screaming and Insults Over Adult Conversation', Huffington Post, 26 April 2013.
• Jason Clemens, 'Not All Tax Cuts Are Good Tax Cuts', Huffington Post, 19 April 2013.
• Jason Clemens & Niels Veldhuis, 'Budget 2013: Stimulus never stopped', Financial Post, 21 March 2013.
• Jason Clemens, 'Lax Heritage Fund Rules Allow Governments to Plunder Alberta's Future', Huffington Post, 18 March 2013.
• Jason Clemens & Niels Veldhuis, 'Those snowballing tax credits', Financial Post, 18 March 2013.
• Jason Clemens, 'B.C. Prosperity Fund Good Idea If Properly Designed', Huffington Post, 21 February 2013.
• Jason Clemens & Niels Veldhuis, 'Ontario worse than California: Province faces crisis due to 78% jump in spending', Financial Post, 4 February 2013.
• Charles Lammam & Jason Clemens, 'Don't Tax The Rich', Huffington Post, 23 January 2013.

2012

• Jason Clemens, 'Making sense of the U.S. economy', ipolitics, 1 June 2012.
• Jason Clemens, 'Stark contrasts between 2012 Democratic and Republican platforms', ipolitics, 7 May 2012.
• Jason Clemens, 'Income inequality: oversimplifying a complicated issue', ipolitics, 1 May 2012.
• Jason Clemens, 'Few people stay poor', Financial Post, 30 April 2012.
• Jason Clemens, 'An incomplete picture of tax fairness', ipolitics, 23 April 2012.
• Jason Clemens, Tax reform needed in upcoming budget', ipolitics, 20 March 2012.
• Jason Clemens, 'Rhetoric and indignation on OAS reform gets in the way of constructive dialogue', ipolitics, 1 February 2012.
• Jason Clemens, 'U.S. angst: Uncertainty is an investment killer', Financial Post, 24 January 2012.

2011

• Jason Clemens, 'Turning point 2014: Reforming Canada Health Transfer', ipolitics, 27 October 2011.
• Jason Clemens, 'Balancing budgets: Good politics, good policy', ipolitics, 8 September 2011.
• Niels Veldhuis & Jason Clemens, Follow Chrétien, Financial Post, 17 February 2011.
• Niels Veldhuis & Jason Clemens, 'Cut Spending Now', Financial Post, 20 January 2011.