Peter Holle is the founding President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an award-winning western Canadian-based public policy think tank. Since its founding in 1997, Frontier has brought a distinctive and influential Prairie voice to regional and national debates over public policy in areas such as core public sector reform, housing, poverty, aboriginals, consumer-focused health care performance, equalization, rural policy and much more. Of the nearly 100 recognized think tanks in Canada, Frontier is one of only 5 to make the 2008 global “Go-To Think Tanks” list published by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.
Mr. Holle has worked extensively with public sector reform and has provided advisory services to various governments across Canada and the United States. His publications have appeared in various newspapers and journals including dozens of newspapers, the National Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a member of various organizations including the Mont Pelerin Society, an international organization of classical liberals.
Frontier senior fellow Leighton Grey is a lawyer who is working with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) on court challenges to lockdowns and vaccine mandates, as well as other related cases. Here is another interview he did recently with Strong and...
I learned a lot about Canadian history when I was an elementary school student. However, it had little to do with what happened during class. Rather, I came across an old Canadian history textbook in our school library and started reading it on my own time. What...
The debate on extreme weather and its linkage to Global Warming (warming due to rising levels of CO2) is heating up again. Stories on extreme weather are replete in many news sites. In Canada, the news media has been covering weather events from Victoria to St....
Emergency managers never plan to resolve a pandemic with the use of a vaccine. This is because a vaccine for a new virus takes three to five years to fully develop, even when pushed forward with emergency urgency, to ensure that the vaccine will be both safe and...
It seems like everything is about justice these days. Recently, as I drove home from the store, I saw a sign for the elections here in New York from the local Democratic Party, promising “equity, equality, and justice for all.” Beyond the obvious concerns any sane...
The “secret graves” and “missing children” narrative had our national flag flying at half-mast for over five months after an obscure indigenous politician made the startling claim that she “knew” that 215 indigenous children had been secretly buried in the “apple...
A few weeks ago I suggested that the Obama Administration’s plan to circumvent the Congress’s rejection of Cap and Trade and other strategies to regulate and reduce carbon dioxide emissions would result in plans to neuter the EPA
Much of our political class is blissfully unaware that we are moving into a time where the activities of government will need to shrink, become smarter and more focused.
The author is doing precisely what academics in the social sciences do when they are best: address important societal issues, stimulate discussion and propose solutions, all in a spirit of independence and intellectual honesty.
One of the most important functions of an independent think tank is to inject controversial ideas and thinking into the public dialogue.
The Harper Government needs to take control of spending. Immediately.
The coming battle should be about delivering better services, not about cutting resources
As well intended equalization is, it’s ultimately a divisive policy that cements the recipients into the status quo while fuelling national acrimony.
The Congress will be moving to slash the budget of the EPA if it continues down the fairy tale road of carbon dioxide regulation.
Manitoba’s old style public sector model has placed the province firmly outside of western Canada’s mainstream.