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Bryan Schwartz
Re-Enlightening Canada
A Legislative Program For Promoting Open, Democratic And Rational Policymaking.
A Proposal For An Arab Trusteeship Council To Govern Gaza
A Proposal for an Arab Trusteeship Council to Govern Gaza
Ottawa’s Provincial Health-Care Deal: What Kind of Fix?
The current Liberal government might achieve a windfall in popularity from concluding agreements on health care with each of the provinces. Perhaps the agreements will be used as the trigger for an early election. It is impossible to evaluate the deals without...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
A Proposal to Resolve the Health-Care Deadlock in Canada
The provinces say they need more federal money for health. The federal government says it wants to be assured of improved outcomes first. In my view, adding money, even with various provinces and metrics, is not going to be sufficient. We will still have huge problems...
Admitted But Excluded: Removing Occupational Barriers to Entry for Immigrants to Canada
Professor Bryan Schwartz describes the harmful impact of occupational licensing requirements that prevent skilled immigrants from working in the professions for which they are trained.
Admitted but Excluded
Many skilled immigrants who arrive in Canada face regulatory barriers that prevent them from working in the professions for which they were trained.
Revitalizing Manitoba (Updated): From Supplicant Society to Diversity and Dynamism
Special Frontier publication authored by Law Professor Bryan Schwartz discussing a variety of topics affecting Manitoba competitiveness, well-being and prosperity that present a practical roadmap towards a less politicized and more successful province.
Revitalizing Manitoba:: From Supplicant Society to Diversity and Dynamism
“I call this whole series an intellectual exploration…my continuing attempt to make sure I never find work in this province. I laugh, I’m smiling, but it’s not that funny. So let me just go back briefly to the diagnosis from three years ago. The idea of Manitoba as a supplicant society. I’ll explain more what that’s about, and put that whole criticism in this larger philosophical context, and then get to the very concrete suggestions that I have attempted to make for revitalizing our society.”
Sustainable Underdevelopment? (Part 8 of 8)
That is for Manitobans to decide—are we content to remain a supplicant society, or are we determined to become a more vibrant one, with a new dynamism, pluralism and vitality?
Manitoba, The Supplicant Society
Special monograph of the entire 8-part series on a variety of topics affecting Manitoba competitiveness, well-being and prosperity by Law Professor Bryan Schwartz.
Manitoba Hydro: Reforming the Jurassic Crown (Part 7 of 8)
Manitoba Hydro needs a full mandate review and governance overhaul if it is to serve the people of Manitoba and become the engine of economic growth it ought to be.
Watchdogs or Poodles? (Part 6 of 8): Independent Agencies in the Supplicant Society
There is a conflict of interest when a government must decide if it will call an inquiry into its own conduct. The solution is to introduce a major role for an independent official. That person would be a preliminary investigator examining the need for an inquiry, considering carefully its scope and the protections to be given to those under scrutiny, and would make a decision or a public recommendation to the government of the day.