So, Who Thinks The Governments of Canada Want to Get to The Bottom Of The Necessity and Constitutionality of Their Covid Measures? That’s Why an Independent Citizen’s Inquiry is so Crucial Last fall I indicated that all the Premiers and the Prime Minister of Canada...
Canada’s Magna Carta—We, The Citizens of Canada Stand For … A) An Independent Public National Inquiry to examine whether Government (Federal, Provincial and Territorial) mandates and lockdowns were necessary and constitutional. People in Government and their...
A) The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is Pierre Elliott Trudeau ‘s Charter The Charter, part of the Patriation Agreement, was approved(signed) by 9 Premiers and the Prime Minister, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, on November 5, 1981. It is the authorizing document making...
Not an Obligatory Federal Government Appointed Inquiry of the Emergency Act Under the Emergencies Act the federal government was forced to appoint an inquiry to review the implementation/use of the Act. The problem is Government invoked the Act and they get to...
The Canadian Dream is increasingly being realized in smaller areas For decades, Canadians moved to the larger cities (census metropolitan areas, or CMAs) with their economic opportunities. The latest estimates indicate that CMAs have 72 per cent of the nation’s...
When the Premiers were first called to a sit-down lunch to talk about healthcare with Prime Minister Trudeau, there was plenty of talk about the potential for systemic change, innovation and accountability. It seemed that Canadians and their leaders were finally on...
The rate practices, requirements and options of BC Hydro were recently leaked to the media by the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union (COPE), which represents the unionized staff of the utility. Apparently, senior BC public servants and BC...
On Sept 25th, residents of Regina will vote in a referendum for the first time in more than 20 years.
The referendum, organized by unions, will decide whether the council is allowed to proceed with its unanimous decision to construct a new wastewater treatment plant via a Public Private Partnership [P3], or whether they will be forced to use a traditional construction method.
Last week, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy held an event in Regina aimed at raising awareness in the community about Public Private Partnerships and how they work.
The sold-out event was opened by the Honourable Don McMorris, Saskatchewan’s Minister of Highways and Infrastructure, who gave us an overview of the province’s plans for a large number of new P3s that will go ahead regardless of the result of the city vote.
A Lancet study finds e-cigarettes appear to cut consumption of smokers. After six months, however, the 57% of e-cigarette users had halved the number of cigarettes smoked each day compared with 41% in those using patches. I find it strange that some people want to ban...
The Manitoba Government has now decided that one size fits all does not work well for guiding municipal mergers. That is a small positive step for the know it all people in government. The next step is to understand that local municipalities have been entering into...
A program in southern Ontario that serves meals to homeless people is being threatened because it is using home cooked meals.
There are dozens and dozens of things that are good for people, for children, for families. But does that mean that the government should pay for every identifiable good? There is no doubt that grandparents are crucial influences in people's lives. One who...
A Nobel prize-winning economist who clarified the role of property rights and transaction costs in the economy has died. Ronald Coase, the winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 1991, has died. He was 102 years old. Coase is known for his pioneering the idea that...
From one of my email feeds from New Zealand comes this thoughtful nugget by Dr. Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director of the New Zealand Initiative, a local think tank: Government spending has been rising for the past one and a half centuries. The increase itself is...
This great column by Jamie Wilson, commissioner of the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba, documents how Prairie First Nations in the immediate post-treaty period were thriving farmers. The current system of dependency and poverty seen on many Western reserves...