The massive debt that Canada’s federal government and other governments around the world took on to face the economic and other fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic is the elephant in the room. This debt could soon become intolerably hard to service if interest rates...
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Manitoba Crown Corporation Proposal for Rural and Remote Internet Provision: Unnecessary and Harmful
The New Democratic Party, the Opposition in the Manitoba legislature, has proposed the creation of a new Crown corporation to provide high-speed internet service to rural and remote communities, particularly First Nations communities, in that province. This idea is...
Escalating Conflicts With Beijing Mean Accelerating Problems for Trade, Investment and Businesses
The vote by Canada’s Parliament to declare the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the region of Xinjiang a genocide against the local Uyghur people is the latest in a series of events that highlight the growing discordance between Western and allied...
Valuation Series: Abundant Natural Gas, Ample Opportunity – A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of SaskEnergy
Divesting SaskEnergy Can Increase Its Profitability WINNIPEG, MB, March 18, 2021 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Abundant Natural Gas, Ample Opportunity: A Valuation & Strategic Appraisal of SaskEnergy by Ian Madsen, a senior policy...
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
BDC: Blatant Deficiency of Cash flow
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Public Choice Alternative: The Business Development Bank of Canada- Blatant Deficiency of Cashflow by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The paper conducts an in depth...
The Bank Devoted to Entrepreneurs: Business Development Bank of Canada
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) was officially established on July 13, 1995. BDC is a federal bank exclusively focusing on Canadian entrepreneurs. BDC is a Crown corporation, owned by the Government of Canada. BDC Capital is a subsidiary of BDC, and is...
Unlimited Cheap Natural Gas: Win-Win-Win for All But Climate Lobby
The Shale Revolution, technology unleashing vast new oil and natural gas production, is delivering lower energy costs to countries, industries and consumers. Absent revolutionary hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling, Canadians’ winter heating bills...
EDC’s Lack of Cash Threatens Taxpayers
Currently, Export Development Corporation (EDC) is unable to convert its reported profits into cash, posing an increasing risk to Canadian taxpayers. Moreover, EDC has been funding ventures that are normally considered too risky for commercial banks to handle. EDC is...
Ian Madsen joins Geoff Currier to explain the common negative effects that are nearly inevitable, and more.
A Pipeline Only Government Could Screw Up
The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project only superficially appears to have been “saved.” The federal government’s nationalization “solution” was birthed by its earlier botching of energy and environmental regulation and policy. Federal and provincial permit...
A Valuation of Export Development Canada
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Extreme Dearth of Cash Flow: A Valuation of Export Development Canada by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The paper conducts an in depth valuation of the alternative...
A Lower Standard of Living–The TransMountain NIMBY Effect
Canada’s standard of living is suffering because of the seemingly perpetual pipeline controversy and especially because of the delays. No, it is not merely the delay in construction that is causing problems, but it is also delays in expanding our oil exports to the...
Marx Was Definitely Not Right, Nor Great
Recently, the world was sadly compelled to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. He was indeed, a major figure in shaping history, but definitely not for the good. Marx, along with his patron, Friedrich Engels, created the political-economic...