Greer painfully realizes that you can’t centrally plan the environment.
David Seymour
David Seymour directed the Frontier Centre’s Saskatchewan office from 2007 to 2011. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Philosophy from the University of Auckland, where he also tutored Economics. After working as an engineer in New Zealand, he applied his passion for sound policy analysis to policy issues on the Prairies. In four years working for the Frontier Centre, David carried out extensive media work, presenting policy analysis through local and national television, newspapers, and radio. His policy columns were published in newspapers in every province as well as the Globe and Mail and the National Post. David produced policy research papers on telecommunications privatization, education, environmental policy, fiscal policy, poverty, and taxi deregulation. However, his major project with the Frontier Centre was the annual Local Government Performance Index (LGPI) which compiled financial performance statistics across all major Canadian cities. David also produced an 18 part video series based on Henry Hazlitt’s classic book Economics in One Lesson and wrote the book “Birth of a Boom – Saskatchewan’s Dawning Golden Age” in 2011.
Research by David Seymour
China’s Gross and Unintended Consequence of Central Planning
Aging population and gendercide, lest we forget.
The Missing Market for Good Honest Politics (Part 3 of 3): Like used car salesmen, politicians must sell themselves as much as their policies.
A look at why politicians face similar incentives to used car salesmen.
Young Kiwis Value Space
Young Kiwis share Canadians’ preference for the suburbs.
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How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
Voluntary Collective Action
CFIB shows that its possible to solve collective action problems through persuasion rather than force.
The Silliest Policy we Have: Why free municipal Wi-Fi doesn’t and can’t work.
Free government wireless Internet in the downtowns and tertiary institutions of Saskatchewan’s major cities is a policy failure that the provincial government should reform.
Saskatchewan! Connected?: Why “free” public Wi-Fi may be the silliest public policy we have.
A Frontier Backgrounder on free government wireless Internet in the downtowns and tertiary institutions of Saskatchewan’s major cities, arguing that this program is a policy failure that the provincial government should reform.
Thank You for Smoking
David Seymour debates smoking regulations and the role of government on Alberta Primetime.
This Shouldn’t be News
Allowing low income housing to be built should not be front page news in Regina.
Bill Gairdner’s Visit
A review of Bill Gairdner’s visit to Regina promoting “The Trouble with Canada… Still.”
Rent Control Advocates Retreat (in fifth gear): How far can Manitoba’s rent control recede before it’s completely pointless?
According to a recent paper written for the provincial government, Manitoba’s rent regulations are almost completely ineffectual.
Marshalling the Evidence on Privatization
The New Zealand Business Roundtable points to the evidence on privatization.
Rent Control that isn’t
A Frontier op-ed appearing in the Winnipeg Free Press outlines the hollow policy that is Manitoba rent control.