“Privatization is not inherently good or bad – the performance or effectiveness depends on implementation.” That isn’t the type of rhetoric one might expect to hear when describing something as polarizing as privatization, but it is one of the conclusions from the...
Year: 2014
Taxation benefits First Nations
With the recent implementation of the First Nations Financial Transparency Act (FNFTA), this may be an excellent opportunity to raise another issue of contention—that of First Nations taxation. If First Nations governments were to tax their reserve base and...
Assembly of First Nations Needs Reform
The resignation earlier this year of Shawn Atleo as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations strongly confirmed the need for reform of this important organization. Internal divisions are preventing the AFN from being as effective as it should be. First Nations...
Manitoba Hydro’s Financial Quagmire
Power Point presentation from Manitoba Hydro's Financial Quagmire. A Breakfast on the Frontier event held in Winnipeg on October 1, 2014 with Will Tishinski, retired VP, Manitoba Hydro. Listen to his Speech...
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Timeless Wisdom – The Politics of Successful Structural Reform
It’s a well-known pattern in public policy – profligate politicians damaging their economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing and higher taxes – inevitably leading to fiscal crisis, sharp declines in growth and ultimately rapidly falling currency value...
Canada’s National Hysteria in the 21st Century
Mass hysteria is the spontaneous manifestation of a particular behaviour by many people. There are numerous historical examples: Middle Age nuns at a convent in France spontaneously began to meow like cats; at another convent, nuns began biting one another. In...
Does the Health System Work – With Ben Eisen
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Aruna Papp Interview
Reprinted from Dialogue. Interview by Juanita Julliet Singh On March 9, 2013, Aruna Papp established a record. She became the first Adventist Indo-Canadian woman to represent Canada as a delegate to the United Nations Conference on Global...
The Public Trusts Science, Not Politicians
Canadians have been deluged with reports about climate change for two decades, but polls still indicate that in most western countries, only about half of us believe in the science of the issue. Perhaps this is because most of what we hear comes from politicians and...
New prostitution laws aren’t just a federal concern
Reactions to the federal government’s introduction of new prostitution laws are mixed, with some praising the Nordic-style ban on buying sex and others saying this approach entails the same risk of harm to sex workers that caused the Supreme Court to strike down the...
Frontier Centre Releases First Canadian Freedom Index
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is pleased to announce the launch of the Freedom Index a new report on the state of various freedoms across the Canadian provinces. The Index assesses a large number of laws and measures, across fiscal, regulatory and personal...
Fracking Does Not Harm Drinking Water
The debate over fracking continues to be lively, and there's a lot of misinformation out there. Fracking, or 'hydraulic fracturing', is the injection of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure into underground rock formations, to release trapped natural gas....
Prostitution Bill A Step Backwards Into The Dark
Prostitution has never been a crime in Canada, though successive governments have regulated related activities in an attempt to exert some measure of control over the industry. But the effectiveness and safety of those regulations - many of which went unenforced - has...
Frontier Centre Releases The Allocation of Resources and Degrees Awarded
A new Frontier Centre study supported the NDP Minister of Education’s decision to shut down the Council on Post-Secondary Education. The NDP Minister of Education, James Allum, planned to fold the Council on Post Secondary Education into the Department of...
The Allocation of Resources and Degrees Awarded
Accountability, measured by results rather than inputs, is fast becoming a reality in Canadian universities, but administrators still claim they need more resources and fewer constraints on their spending. Over a seven-year period from 2001 to 2008, the resources for...