The cancellation of the Energy East pipeline project by TransCanada Corporation, citing delays caused by the regulatory process, newly lengthened and thickened by Ottawa, is emblematic of forces conspiring against rational energy and regulatory policy.
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Six Takeaways from Venezuela’s Dystopia
No matter how far Venezuela sinks, there remain loyalists who deflect and deny, including plenty in Canada. These dogmatic adherents of authoritarian central planning foretell more Venezuelas to come. Bolivia under Evo Morales and Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega look to...
A Valuation of New Brunswick Liquor Corporation
New Brunswick Liquor Corporation (NBL) is the monopoly Crown corporation which controls and retails all beverage alcohol in the province of New Brunswick. Using an intrinsic value method, and discounting to the present, NBL’s projected future free cash flows, as the...
A Hard Bargain: Comprehensive history of treaty negotiations reframes many Indigenous issues
Canada is, without question, a land of historic treaties, particularly in the West. There were treaties between the Hudson’s Bay Company and Indigenous communities in Rupert’s Land for building trading posts and using waterways. The Métis of the Red River Settlement...
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Decoupling and Reshoring From China will be Hard: China Holds Most of the Cards
Several factors have merged to induce Western governments and the firms they preside over, to find substitute supply chains for China-dominant ones that they now depend on. These factors include growing public revulsion at the repressive and persecutory policies the...
Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
In 1970 Milton Friedman, a Nobel Laureate, in his article to the New York Times (The Social Responsibility of Business Is To Increase Its Profits) proposed that an enterprise’s primary and sole responsibility was to the shareholder through the maximization of profits....
Too Costly To Leave The Indigenous Situation As It Is
Graham Lane Despite innumerable inquiries, claimed reforms and repeated apologies, Canada’s indigenous situation remains unsettled, tragic and almost incalculably expensive. Mired in misery, far too many aboriginal people and communities remain trapped in dire...
Treaty Land Entitlement and Urban Reserves in Saskatchewan
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released a study about treaty land entitlement and urban reserves in Saskatchewan. The study was conducted by Dr. Tom Flanagan, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary, and Mr. Lee Harding, who was a M.A. student in the...
What Was Missing In the Truth and Reconciliation Report
Graham Lane In an op-ed in the Winnipeg Free Press (September 26th), Gerry Chidiac accepted without reservation the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) findings, which uncritically condemned past residential schools. The TRC Report (on the History of Indian...
As The Crow Flies – Transportation Policy in Saskatchewan and the Crow’s Nest Pass Agreement
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy today released a study by Mary-Jane Bennett, a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. As the Crow Flies: Transportation Policy in Saskatchewan and the Crow’s Nest Pass Agreement studies the Crow rate, one of the...
Consider All Options For Kapyong Barracks Site
The former Kapyong Barracks site, located on 160 acres of prime Winnipeg real estate, has been vacant since 2004. The Southern Chiefs’ Organization — the organization representing Treaty 1 First Nations in Southern Manitoba — has elected Jerry Daniels of Long Plain...
CBC Doesn’t Reflect Everybody
Peter Holle January 30, 2017 In November, CBC proposed to withdraw from advertising in exchange for increased government funding. This is a significant move for the corporation because the broadcast-television advertising market, once lucrative, is fragmenting as...
Canada’s Equalization System Has Proved an Utter Failure That No Country Would Want to Copy
David MacKinnon February 2, 2017 In recent months, several commentators have been recommending that other countries adopt equalization and other Canadian-style regional subsidies. They argue that this would help avoid the political stresses that the American rustbelt...
The Hidden Agendas Of Sustainability Illusions
Paul Driessen As President Trump downgrades the relevance of Obama era climate change and anti-fossil fuel policies, many environmentalists are directing attention to “sustainable development.” Like “dangerous manmade climate change,” sustainability reflects poor...
Renegotiate First Nation Treaties
Graham Lane Canada has had 150 years to deal with a clash of civilizations between a pre-existing indigenous population and a massive influx of, initially, Europeans. With newcomers quickly out-numbering the indigenous population, spreading into lands occupied by...