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Witness Testimony – Wrap up comments – Manning et al – Towards a National Citizen’s Inquiry
The panel was comprised of lawyer Shawn Buckley, Richard Girgis, Preston Manning, and Max Daigle from CAERS. Preston Manning affirms that the intent is to follow up on these meetings. The first step is to share the videos and testimony of this hearing. The second step...
Preston Manning Announces National Citizen’s Inquiry Into Canada’s Covid-19 Measures
Ottawa, November 2, 2022 – A citizens group, chaired by Preston Manning, announced plans for a National Citizens Inquiry (NCI) into Canada’s response to COVID-19 in Ottawa today. Canada’s federal, provincial, and municipal governments’ responses to COVID-19 were of an...
Preston Manning: Canada’s Economic Future
The following is a condensed version of a speech given by Preston Manning at a Frontier Centre for Public Policy event in Winnipeg on Sept. 22, 2022. Watch the video here. What are Canada’s strengths? We don’t have the largest population. We don’t have the largest...
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Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
Preston Manning opens up about the COVID Commission report – The Grey Matter Podcast
https://rumble.com/embed/v1m5s33/?pub=1u06to Constitutional Lawyer Leighton Grey and Frontier Senior Fellow and The Honorable Preston Manning have a conversation about the history of politics in Canada, the reason behind his writing of the COVID...
Preston Manning: Toward a National Inquiry Into Canada’s Management of the COVID Crisis
Increasing numbers of Canadians are demanding a national, independent investigation into government mismanagement of the COVID outbreak. Because governments themselves would be the subject of such an investigation, its conduct would need to be assigned to a...
Students Against Mandates: Response to Manning’s “Report of the COVID Commission”
Over the last two years, Canadians have been told to “trust the science” without raising a question. Despite reasonable concerns, the evidence from Pfizer’s and Moderna’s randomized controlled trials (RCT) showed that for every 103 deaths in the “vaccinated” group...
Leaders on the Frontier | Investigating Governmental Management of the COVID Pandemic, with Preston Manning
No region of North America has had more experience – much of it positive – with populist movements, populist parties, and populist governments than western Canada. It was the populist Progressive and Farmers parties that elected the first woman to Parliament, the...
Leighton Grey: Preston Manning’s Thought Experiment: “The Covid Commission”
Imagination is Everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions – Albert Einstein A hallmark of Albert Einstein’s career was his use of thought experiments or “Gedankenexperiment” as a fundamental tool for understanding physical issues and for elucidating...
Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Leaders on the Frontier | Investigating Governmental Management of the COVID Pandemic, with Preston Manning, former Leader of the Opposition in Parliament.
No region of North America has had more experience – much of it positive – with populist movements, populist parties, and populist governments than western Canada. It was the populist Progressive and Farmers parties that elected the first woman to Parliament, the...
Mark Steyn at Manning Networking Conference 2014
Last month I attended the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa. It's the largest annual gathering of conservative and libertarians in Canada, with a noticeable generational split between those two philosophies. The keynote speaker on the final day of the conference...
Manning Networking Conference 2013
Last month the Frontier Centre attended the annual Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa As well as getting to listen to some great speakers and panels during the conference sessions, we also had a booth of our own out in the foyer. It was a great opportunity to...