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.
Year: 2000
Manitoba Per Capita Health Spending Highest in Canada
The Manitoba government spends almost 20% more per capita on health care than the rest of Canada. If per capita spending was at the Canadian average it would spend about $500 million less than it presently does.
Russians Understand Optimal Size Of Government
Russian President Putin’s chief economic advisor is applying a dose of radical medicine to supercharge that country’s economic growth rate and living standards.
Manitoba Has Larger Public Sector Than Most
This backgrounder compares and contrasts provincial public administration expenditure patterns across Canada with a special focus on Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Statistics Canada defines public administration in the following way: “This sector comprises establishments primarily engaged in activities of a governmental nature, that is, the enactment and judicial interpretation of laws and their pursuant regulations, and the administration of programs based on them.”
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Capital Charge Magic Remedy for Winnipeg’s Downtown
Winnipeg can create strong incentives for its departments to use property assets better by requiring them to pay a capital charge on their market value.
Why America Needs School Vouchers
Much current discussion of educational vouchers takes it for granted that their primary aim is to improve education for low-income students in urban areas.
Managed Competition – The Phoenix Experience
Under managed competition, a public agency competes with private sector firms to provide public agency functions and services. Managed competition attempts to create a “level playing field” between the public and private sectors to select the most cost effective method of delivering public services.
Government as a Percent of the Economy
OECD statistics between 1983 and 2001 comparing size of government in 24 countries.
Sweden’s Purchaser-Provider Split in Healthcare
For 500 years Sweden has been a uniform and centralized country. Today it is on the road to pluralism and stronger regional governments. Often the leader of new trends in Europe, Swedes are making it clear to their politicians that they want public policies which cater better to individual needs and preferences.
Nav Canada
Statistical highlights of performance improvements in Canada’s air traffic control system.
Exploding The Myths Of MSAs
Why pour more money into Medicare’s black hole without structural reform?
*O Canada! A National Swan Song?
With reluctance and resignation, Canadians are concluding that what they once celebrated as the world’s longest undefended border is quickly vanishing. Economically, culturally, socially, demographically, even politically, Canada, they say, is becoming indistinguishable from the United States.
A Conversation with Ronald Jensen
Its primary element is competition, or managed competition, in which the city workforce competes with the private sector to deliver municipal services.