Andrei Illarionov, the maverick leading Russia’s newest economic revolution, says the IMF has bungled the country’s free-market reforms long enough
Year: 2000
Canada Should Keep “First Past The Post” Voting System
There are as many electoral engineers in this world as there are social engineers. They want to devise ingenious systems to advance vague concepts such as “inclusiveness”, while failing to define adequately what that means.
*The Idea Peddlers
The impact of Canadian think tanks on policy and elections has never been greater. We take a look at five of the most influential creators – and marketers – of the ideas shaping our country.
Reforming Financial Management In The Public Sector
Executive Summary In governments across the world, public-sector financial systems are being transformed more fundamentally than at any time in decades. The changes taking place-in governments from Wellington, New Zealand to London, England-respond to a number of...
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There’s Nothing Fair About Canadian Health Care
For the past 14 years, Vancouver surgeon Dr. Brian Day has led the charge for health-care reform, pushing for the right of patients to pay for private care if their health and well-being are threatened as a result of waiting in a stagnant and overburdened public...
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye
The path to net zero, based on the much disputed belief that carbon dioxide is a pollution, is more steep and impractical than most people realize. Replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity will require much more power generation and a greatly upgraded grid to...
Thousand Tier Healthcare
Structural reform, not more money, is the solution to Canada’s Medicare mess.
Moving Manitoba Beyond That 70s Show
Four imaginative solutions to Manitoba’s perennial policy paralysis.
First Nations Dominate Jail Populations
Data source: Examining Aboriginal Corrections in Canada, a paper written by Carol LaPrairie, Ph.D. for the Ministry of the Solicitor General in 1996. (Population Source 1991 Census; Sentenced Admission Data Taken From 1991 Provincial Data Sets, except for Saskatchewan...
Why it’s Bad Luck to be a Lucky Country
Australia is “the lucky country”. Mineral rich Australians bask in the glow of their God-given place in the sun. Whenever the Australian economy has been in deep strife with a dreadful current account and a collapsing currency.
Free up Hydro with Alaska-Style Heritage Fund
Selling Manitoba Hydro is smart public policy. Using the proceeds to endow individual citizens is an imaginative framework for the privatization.
*We need a maxi-plan, not a mini-budget
Tomorrow, Paul Martin will be delivering a fiscal update but, unlike other years, it will include a mini-budget. Hopefully, “mini” won’t be the guiding objective for establishing a direction for Canada’s budgetary stance. What we need is a “maxi” plan to address the critical long-term economic issues faced by Canada.
Follow the Swedish Model and Keep the VON
An important lesson fron Sweden’s healthcare reforms is their salutary effects on worker performance. We should contract more services to outside providers, not fewer.
More Swedish Healthcare Reform
This is a response to a CBC commentary by the Frontier Centre.
A Conversation with Johan Hjertqvist
We have redefined what is good healthcare and have been quite successful in some parts of Sweden – cutting waiting lists, speeding up productivity, improving quality, satisfying personnel working in healthcare.