One year after liberalising the Canadian Wheat Board's lock on cereal farmers, it is time to turn on supply management and its marketing boards. Today, August 1, marks the first anniversary of the liberation of the wheat and barley (among other cereals) markets in...
Year: 2013
Realistic Environmentalism
“The government is the worst shareholder in the world,” says Mr. Dwyer, whose business is subsidy-free, a rare status for green industry in Canada.
Equalization Corrodes Belgium
An occasional topic at Frontier is equalization, a very time worn federal transfer program that flows vast sums of money, no-strings-attached, to the so-called "have-not" provinces. While certainly well-intended, several think tanks have documented the program's...
Media Release – Rachel Carson and Organic Cherry-Picking: The Anti-science Wing of the Organic Movement
Rachel Carson, the author of the influential book Silent Spring receives all the credit for the rise of the organic movement, but Carson’s work is barely scientific. Carson’s book provides organic activists with exactly what they want to hear.
Featured News
Crown Corporations Can Evade Disaster If They Are Sold Off
The recent unhappy news that Canadian taxpayers will soon be at least partially bailing out the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the owners of Nalcor, which is completing the massively over-budget and behind-schedule Muskrat Falls power plant, may be the least...
Canada Looks Like Communism to Calgary Pastor
When Artur Pawlowski came to Canada in 1995, he did not think it would turn out as it has. The pastor of Calgary’s Street Church, famous for his confrontations with police, says Canada looks too much like the Communist Poland he grew up in. “I grew up seeing police...
Media Release – Saskatchewan Can Take the Lead: The Future of E-Government in Saskatchewan
Using the European state of Estonia as a model, this study shows how Saskatchewan has an opportunity to place itself at the front of the pack delivering services and fostering greater entrepreneurship among Canadian governments by enhancing its e-Government services.
Eco-Imperialism Joins Vulture Environmentalism: Obama appointees seek to impose ideological control over our energy, economy and property
Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice to replace Lisa Jackson at the Environmental Protection Agency, has been chastised for having lied to Congress, in claiming that EPA did not use “dangerous manmade climate change” to justify new 54.5 mpg standards for cars and light trucks. She’s also been implicated in the agency’s practice of using fake emails to hide questionable dealings and activities.
Someone Will Eventually Have to Clean Up the Conservatives’ Tax Code
Some day, likely many years from now, a federal government will clean up the mess the Harper Conservatives have made of the tax code. For entirely political reasons, the Conservatives have offended two core principles of good tax policy, and they did nothing about either offence in this week’s budget.
Canada’s Supply-Managed Stranglehold: How a system designed to help farmers is stopping companies from doing all the good things Ottawa says it wants from businesses – innovating, exporting and taking risks.
Critics of supply management have typically focused on the high cost paid by consumers. Cami’s predicament demonstrates how lost export opportunities and the stifling of agricultural innovation is harming a much broader swath of the economy. Supply management is sapping economic growth, jobs and productivity, up and down the food chain, not to mention the hit on government revenues.
The Future of E-Government in Saskatchewan
Introduction Progressive public policies and long-term vision have brought Saskatchewan back to the forefront of economic development. News headlines depict the province as the land of opportunity. Saskatchewan is leading the country in economic and population growth,...
Government of Alberta feeding the fire that threatens to destroy Canada’s economy
The Government of Alberta paid $30,000.00 to have this advertisement published in the New York Times on March 17, 2013. Click on image to expand to readable size. It was bad enough that that Alberta government misleads its own citizens about the climate scare. Now,...
Pocket Picking
With a string of annual deficits on record and a spiraling provincial debt, the Manitoba government looks to ’other’ sources of income to fund its ‘wants’. It would be better if the government made a sincere effort to ‘live within its means . . .
Federal budget earmarks money towards proven First Nations land program
The 2013 federal budget is good news for First Nations as it earmarks funds towards bands seeking to enter the First Nations Land Management Act (FNLMA). The FNLMA is a proven path towards First Nations improvement.
Why are Alberta doctors getting the short end of the stick?
In their dealings with teachers and doctors, the Alberta government of Alison Redford is showing preference to one group and derision to another. But before we get into the arguments, let me state two things right off the bat: I have nothing against paying people...