Agriculture Minister Chuck Strahl has released a new report outlining the changes he plans to implement regarding the CWB by 2008.
Year: 2006
Capital’s Cities Keep Competition Alive, Taxes Down
Mark Milke’s response to Carolyn Heiman’s suggestion of amalgamtion of Greater Victoria as a solution for property-tax breaks.
Time to Tap Canada’s Water Riches
The left-wing government has spoken out against water exports but doesn’t Canada have enough of this renewable resource to go around?
Obituary: Lord Harris of High Cross
Economist and founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, Lord Ralph Harris died at the age of 81. The following is a summary of some of his accomplishments.
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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...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
High Gas Taxes Only Hurt The Poor
Most people drive most of the time for necessity, of course, and only occasionally for pleasure. It’s reasonable, in either case, to expect drivers to pay for the roads and the bridges. Higher gas taxes, levied at the pump, punish only poor low-income people.
Improve Federalism By Cutting Duplicity
Since the introduction of the goods and services tax in 2000 the states have received about 20 per cent more than expected, equalling $70 billion in unanticipated revenue. Instead of using their windfall to continue the process of reform and sustain the good economic times, they have expanded the size of government and increased the numbers and salaries of public servants.
Deal or No Deal? WTO Deadline Nears
Where’s Howie Mandel when we really need him? Canada should abandon its misguided position and take the WTO deal before it’s too late.
Planning
Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court provoked widespread outrage when, by a 5-4 decision, it allowed cities to take people's land by eminent domain and give or sell the land to private developers. But few noted that the justification was "a comprehensive development...
Regulated Gas a Pain for Manitobans
In an effort to shield consumers from fluctuating natural gas prices, the Manitoba Public Utilities Board has inadvertently created a trap for householders that could add as much as $10 million to the gas bills of consumers. For many years, the PUB has focused its...
Harry Lehotsky, Inner-City Preacher, Activist and Change Agent
Many social agencies are “poverty pimps,” living high off the hog while their clients remain trapped in dysfunctional neighbourhoods? A front-line perspective from a Winnipeg icon.
Transfer Real Taxing Power to the Provinces
Ontario and the other provinces should put their own tax on the GST base, while the federal government cuts federal transfers and its GST rate to compensate.
National Transit Program One-Way Ticket to Higher Spending
Last month’s Big City Mayors Caucus report “Our Cities, Our Future,” claims that Canada is the only G8 country without a national transit program. Before Canada jumps on this bandwagon, it would do well to examine just what has happened to national transit programs elsewhere.
Stealth Plan To ‘Privatise’ NHS Care
THE world’s biggest private health companies are being invited to bid for the chance to spend substantial chunks of the £80 billion NHS budget.