A litany of disastrous decisions have sometimes cost lives and definitely many billions of dollars. Effectively cancelling the Global Public Health Intelligence Network; the failure to implement the pandemic preparedness protocols developed by Ottawa’s public health...
Ian Madsen
International Corporate Tax-Rate Fixing Will Bind Canada, Limit Choices and Harm Growth
The finance ministers of over 130 nations and territories have arrived at a tentative agreement that will create a tax floor—a minimum corporate tax rate of a proposed 15 per cent. Its proponents, including Ottawa, sadly, claim it will create a “level playing field”...
Crown Corporations Can Evade Disaster If They Are Sold Off
The recent unhappy news that Canadian taxpayers will soon be at least partially bailing out the government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the owners of Nalcor, which is completing the massively over-budget and behind-schedule Muskrat Falls power plant, may be the least...
New-ish LNG Project has Nisga’a First Nation Backing, Aiding its Launch, but Will Not Guarantee It
Recently, a previously-mooted huge, estimated $55 billion Liquefied Natural Gas, ‘LNG’, project taking natural gas from Northeastern British Columbia to its northwest coast at Pearse Island received the blessing and explicit financial and political backing from the...
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A Year of LNG Royalties/Taxes from a Single Pipeline Could Pay for …
Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Medical Martial Law – Never Again
The economic upheaval now roiling over the world’s financial markets, rapidly lowering living standards, and even threatening to freeze Europeans this winter, is all directly related to the radical decision most western leaders took in March of 2020., when a new...
A New, Free-Market-Based Agenda to Tackle Either Slow or Fast Climate Change
The Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, will soon issue his own program for dealing with ‘Climate Change’ and its consequences. The earth appears to be warming; how much or how fast or whether it is human-caused is for another debate. The current regime in...
A Valuation of Canada Lands Corporation Limited
Canada Lands Corporation Limited, or CLCL, is the Crown corporation which sells surplus federal land and buildings and also develops various parcels across the country. Using an intrinsic value method, and discounting to the present CLCL’s projected future free cash...
D-Day and the Parallels of Dictators Then and Now?
This week we commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the courage and sacrifice of thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen on the beaches and in the fields and woods of Normandy, France on June 6th, 1944. Fourteen thousand Canadian service members participated...
Agenda to Make Canada More Competitive, Productive, and Raise Its Standard of Living
There has been a lot of concern and digital ink spilled over the slow increase in living standards of the average, or ‘median’, Canadian over the past ten, twenty, thirty, forty or more years. In the long run, economists say that the key to increasing real, i.e.,...
A Stronger Loonie Would Boost Living Standards, but Needs Initiative, Policy Changes to Happen
The standard of living of Canada’s population is not growing as quickly as per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The reason for that is our dollar has been declining in relative terms against the currency of our biggest trading partner, the United States. While...
A Valuation of the Royal Canadian Mint
The Royal Canadian Mint, or ‘RCM’, is the federal Crown corporation which produces the coin currency, one and two dollar and smaller coins, used in circulation for consumer financial transactions in Canada. Using an intrinsic value method, and discounting to the...
Churchill Falls Defeat Is Not the End
The citizens and taxpayers of Newfoundland and Labrador received important news late in 2018: an autopsy of a horrific historic financial debacle (Churchill Falls) and the beginning of an inquiry into the questionable new Muskrat Falls hydro-electric project. The long...
Climate Jihad Setback
With the SNC Lavalin affair dragging down the federal government, the resignation of a key fossil fuel appointment as leader of the World Bank, and a new head of the Presidential Committee on Climate Security of the United States, the headlong rush into punitive...
China, Other Autocracies, are Dubious Counterparties in Trade, Other Interaction
In what seems to be a never-ending, always-escalating war against Canada to make Ottawa return The Most Valuable Woman In The World, Meng Wanzhou, CFO and heiress to the mammoth and Sino-idolized Huawei Corporation, Beijing has made yet another dubious charge, that...