Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅

@fcklooneyleft @scoopercooper I know he's a Bengals fan but that still seems harsh.

@MikePMoffatt @scoopercooper George Clooney is the second dumbest person on the planet. So not a bad analogy to the PM

I know the Prime Minister. I like the Prime Minister. I've worked with the Prime Minister. I've served on a board with the Prime Minister. But if he's George Clooney, then I'm a Hemsworth.

@dirtsleep I'll take it.

@MikePMoffatt I've always thought of you as a kinda Steve Buscemi.

@andrew_leach @supriyadwivedi Proving once again that defamation law works.

@MikePMoffatt @supriyadwivedi I suspect there are a lot of things muttered about you that don't get recorded in meeting minutes. 😂

@supriyadwivedi And yet it never got recorded in the meeting minutes...

@MikePMoffatt you might not have heard it bc I’m making it up, but during those board meetings I often said you were the hemsworth brother of housing policy

Has anyone analyzed the change in Daulton Varsho's swing? It looks to me his bat plane is flatter and staying in the zone longer, leading to more contact and line drives up the middle. Swing looks Pete Rose-esque.

@greg60328592 @mattgurney To be fair, that also describes my local Loblaws.

@MikePMoffatt @mattgurney One till open on Saturday afternoon with 20-people in line with five employees milling around in the background…but that kind of describes every public service top to bottom…very heavy at the top!

Here’s a fun question. Is there any element of Canadian public service, and I’m describing this broadly so we can include any order of government or locale, that is appropriately sized to meet public demand? I know that in some areas there are more schools than are needed.

I'll be a witness this morning at a House of Commons committee, talking about housing. Here are my opening remarks, titled "Transparency, Targets, and Family Housing: Strengthening Bill C-20" Read here: missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/transparency…

Canada's national productivity is near the bottom of the G7. Decades of government policies, from free trade to tax cuts, haven't worked. @MikePMoffatt & @SabrinaMaddeaux have some ideas why, which we explore on today's Classonomics

New episode! We look at Canada's lagging productivity; specifically my views on how productivity increases can be driven by either fear or greed, that fear is a better motivator, yet public policy tends to overfocus on greed. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=AGu_lZ…

That or you just take a fruit out of the box labelled "mixed", change the label to whatever fruit you pulled out, then change the other signs accordingly. But that only solves the problem of people asking goofy, irrelevant test questions temporarily.

C'mon, this is easy. You take one fruit out of the boxes. You then take off your sock, and put the fruit in the sock. Then you smack the interviewer with the apple/orange filled sock until they give you the answer.

@ScratchDuffer The HST measure has only been in place for 13 days, and the DC measure still isn't in effect.

@MikePMoffatt It's been a few weeks. Has it done anything? The article is paywalled

New piece at the Globe, on how the combination of enhanced HST rebates and 50% development charges will lower the price of new homes by 15-20%, and why the savings will be passed along to buyers. Read here: theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…

Looks like I'll be a witness at the House of Commons #HUMA committee meeting on Thursday morning, talking housing, Build Canada Homes, and Bill C-20. Should be fun! ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer…

@BrianDijkema Thanks so much!

@MikePMoffatt Good piece, Mike and Cara.

New piece from Cara and me, on how the affordability crisis is shrinking family sizes. Read: With a record-low 1.25 children per Canadian woman, stop dismissing falling fertility rates as a choice thehub.ca/2026/04/14/wit…

Tl/dr in nerdspeak: What some call revealed preference can actually be hidden constraints in choice architecture. Good piece by @carastern and @MikePMoffatt in @TheHubCanada

@brettdrc It is, on "suitable for a household of that size".

@MikePMoffatt Is size mentioned? This is what’s missing.

New piece! The root cause of our middle-class housing failures stems from governments enacting policies without a clear goal. Today, we provide a goal for governments to use in policymaking, centred around choice and children. Read here: missingmiddleinitiative.ca/p/the-one-ques…