“Are you saving $14,180 a year for your pension? That is how much you would have needed to save – every year for the last 35 years – to pay yourself a pension equal to that of a federal public servant retiring today. That’s a lot of money and precisely why taxpayers are on the hook for an unfunded federal pension liability of $208 billion, according to a recent C.D. Howe Institute report.”
Year: 2010
Breakfast on the Frontier – Healthcare Policy – With John Carpay
Listen to John Carpay speak about issues of law, healthcare policy and waiting lists here. (22 minutes)
Time to Free Students from Forced Association: Freedom of association is a human right and universities are an ironic place to withhold them.
Freedom of association is a basic human right that includes freedom not to associate. It is time Canada followed Australia, Sweden, and New Zealand by making student unions and their fees voluntary.
Tearing Apart the British Welfare State: Tories Impose Jobs on the ‘Workshy’
“In a huge and risky experiment sure to be watched closely by other countries wrestling with public debt, government budget deficits and shrinking work forces, Prime Minister David Cameron’s government Thursday announced sweeping plans to change the lives of 5 million people dependent on government payments in an effort to push hundreds of thousands of people into the work force.”
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Canadians on the Move, to Smaller Communities
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Leadership Needed in Canadian Healthcare; Apply Within
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The Failure Of Sweden’s Red-Green Alliance
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Who Should Own Reserve Lands?
“The First Nation Property Ownership Initiative is drawing fire, with some calling it a proposal to transform reserve lands into fee simple holdings. This is incorrect. The legislation is intended to help first nations participate in the national economy on terms that most Canadians take for granted.”
Time To Hold Climate Doomsayers To Account
The false idea is presented out of context then left uncorrected by lack of follow up. This is especially true if the story is a prediction. We need a media vehicle to analyze the story in context followed by the aftermath. It’s time for a program on which doomsayers who profited financially or politically from false stories and predictions confronted and held to account.
Manitoba’s Immigration Record Hailed: Nominee plan envy of nation
“Manitoba’s provincial nominee immigration program has been a rousing success thus far but still has room for improvement, a new report concludes.”
Getting Tough On Human Smuggling: Attempting to fix our broken asylum system
As the federal government introduces reforms to the dysfunctional asylum system in Canada, there will be outcries of inhumanity. New rules aim at smugglers and the smuggled into the country. They represent a sound contribution to stem the flow of the illegitimate claims that have brought our asylum system to near paralysis.
Political Currents in Quebec Shifting to the Right: A New Conservative Movements Emerges
A new political movement was launched in Quebec City on the weekend (October 23).The movement is an expression of the frustrations of a new generation with the excesses of the previous one. It aims not a forming a political party, but at bringing together libertarian and conservative Quebeckers to produce a cultural shift.
President Václav Klaus: Inaugural Annual GWPF Lecture
The Climate Change Doctrine is Part of Environmentalism, Not of Science It is a great honor for me to be here tonight, getting a chance to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Global Warming Policy Foundation to such a distinguished audience. Even though it may seem...
Abusing Canada’s Generosity and Ignoring Genuine Refugees: An Analysis of Current and Still-needed Reforms to Canada’s Refugee and Immigration System
EU countries long ago introduced prescreening processes to sort out frivolous claims, and they have accelerated procedures for dealing with claimants who originate from countries that are safe for refugees. Many countries reduced welfare benefits and other services for asylum seekers, and others do not permit asylum seekers to work. These methods were implemented so that fraudulent claimants who were really migrants did not overwhelm their asylum systems.
Media Release – Abusing Canada’s Generosity and Ignoring Genuine Refugees:: An Analysis of Current and Still-needed Reforms to Canada’s Refugee and Immigration System
The asylum system in Canada is broken. It is unable to distinguish readily between migrants and genuine refugees. Canada spends more on refugee claimants than the budget of UN agency responsible for caring for 43.3 million refugees and others in camps around the world. A powerful lobby of special interests has blocked most reforms to fix it, and Canada now lags behind most asylum-granting countries in their legislation.