Laura Jones

Laura Jones is a Canadian teacher, economist and business activist. She is a contributor to the libertarian think tank, The Fraser Institute. She writes on a variety of issues and is published in the Fraser Forum, the monthly peer reviewed journal published by the Institute. Jones is the Director of the Centre for Studies in Risk and Regulation at The Fraser Institute. She received her M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Career Jones is Vice-President of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Since joining CFIB in 2003, Jones has spearheaded a number of high-profile campaigns on behalf of small businesses, including CFIB’s annual 'Red Tape Awareness Week' and the ‘Park the Tax’ campaign that convinced the BC government to get rid of a new property tax on parking in the Lower Mainland. Prior to joining CFIB she was Director of Environment and Regulatory Studies at The Fraser Institute and taught economics at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. She has authored or co-authored a number of public policy studies including, Canada’s Regulatory Burden, Searching For Solutions: Experiments in Fisheries Management on Canada’s West Coast, and Environmental Indicators. She has edited five books including, Safe Enough? Managing Risk and Regulation. Jones has also published articles in the prominent Canadian newspapers, the Vancouver Sun, the Ottawa Citizen, and the National Post and testified before Parliamentary and Congressional committees on proposed legislation. She has also co-ordinated The Fraser Institute’s annual survey of mining companies. One prominent governmental advisory committee Jones co-chaired was the Paperwork Burden Reduction Initiativewhich was instrumental in streamlining new technologies in the day-to-day business within Industry Canada.