This short video covers the key points of Chapter Five "Taxes Discourage Production" from Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson." The video follows Hazlitt's argument that taxation is not merely a neat accounting exercise which shifts resources from the private to...
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Interview: Frontier Senior Fellow Michael Zwaagstra discusses changes to Ontario's sex-ed curriculum accompanied by scrapping discovery math model on The Roy Green Show. (~17 minutes)
Help Alberta’s Workers – Cut Corporate Taxes
This is a tale of two very different Alberta budgets. In 2001, the-then PC Alberta government aggressively attacked the province’s corporate tax burden. “Alberta should respond to the world-wide trend to lower corporate income tax rates,” the budget document advised....
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Free Trade among the Prairie Provinces: A Boost for Their Economies
Trade barriers among provinces in Canada are a problem. Canada has signed trade agreements with foreign countries like the U.S. and regions like the European Union. Yet, trade barriers still exist in Canada even though countries like Germany or Belgium don’t have...
“Capitol” Punishment: A Betrayal
The attack on the Capitol in Washington and its aftermath have taken a toll, but unfortunately, the incident will remain remote and extraordinary for most. It has been politicized, sensationalized and reconstructed, but its tragic impact on those on the front lines is...
Ending Real Estate Self Regulation Boosts Transparency
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark recently announced that the days of self-regulation are over for the real estate industry. The Real Estate Council of B.C. had previously been tasked with ensuring that people who are buying and selling homes in the province are...
American Job Losses and NAFTA
Decades of steady trade liberalization have served Canada’s economic development. As the Montreal Economic Institute’s Mathieu Bédard noted recently in FP Comment (“Trump’s anti-NAFTA myths spread north,” July 14), the NAFTA years...
First Nations’ Financial Reporting and Public Opinion in Canada
Over the last several decades, indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians have become increasingly interested in issues relating to financial transparency and accountability on Canadian reserves. Indigenous and non-indigenous governments have responded with various...
Will Saudi Ceasefire in Oil War Offer Price Relief
Canadian energy producers have been dealing with a triple whammy of low oil prices, unfavourable policy changes and the Fort McMurray wildfire. Two weeks ago, Saudi Arabia’s new oil minister declared a ceasefire in the two-year-old oil war with the shale industry....
Blowing Hot Air on the Wrong Target? A Critique of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement in Higher Education
By 2015, students and faculty at more than 1,000 college and university campuses across the world (including nearly 30 in Canada) had pressured academic trustees and administrators to divest their institutions’ endowment holdings in publicly held fossil fuel companies...
Amalgamation of BC Municipal Governments
A public advocacy campaign to amalgamate the 13 municipal governments in Greater Victoria has been underway for a few years. As elsewhere in Canada and around the world, much of the justification for the amalgamation proposal is cost savings. However, the results have...
Brexit
Having been in the United Kingdom for the last 10 days of the Brexit campaign, the victory of the Brexiteers over the Remainers was expected. The debate pitched economics against politics. Maybe, as David Smith wrote in The Times, “the economics and...
Canada’s Middle-Income Housing Affordability Crisis
Canada has a serious middle-income housing affordability crisis. Canada’s house prices have grown nearly three times that of household income since 2000. This contrasts with the stability between growth in house prices and household income during the previous three...
It’s Time to End Supply Management
Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Maxime Bernier has come out against the long standing practice of agricultural supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs. It is rare for a Canadian politician to take on this issue, but the evidence is overwhelming...