The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its report in 2015 saying that that Canada and the Churches that managed the majority of Indian Residential Schools treated Indigenous people as if they were sub-human. If this is true, then why did many...
Speech
Red Tape: Canada’s Hidden Tax (Speech)
Elliot Sims speech and Q&A at a Frontier Centre for Public Policy Breakfast entitled: Red Tape: Canada's Hidden Tax. View the Power Point Presentation here: http://archive.fcpp.org/posts/red-tape-canadas-hidden-tax-powerpoint-slides
Manitoba Hydro’s Financial Quagmire (Speech)
Will Tishinski speech and Q&A at a Frontier Centre for Public Policy Breakfast entitled: Manitoba Hydro's Financial Quagmire. View the Power Point Presentation here: http://archive.fcpp.org/posts/manitoba-hydros-financial-quagmire
Regulatory Oversight of Energy Megaprojects In Newfoundland and Labrador and in Manitoba
David Vardy, former Chair of the Newfoundland and Labrador Public Utilities Board, spoke on April 30th, 2014 at a Frontier Centre for Public Policy luncheon concerning the alarming parallels between over-ambitious and risky hydro projects in Manitoba and Newfoundland...
Featured News
Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Regional Subsidies Damage Ordinary Ontarians: David Mackinnon addresses Belleville Rotary Club
“I want to tackle a taboo subject today: how one of Canada’s most sacred cows—regional subsidies—is, in fact, chewing up the country’s economic foundations, national unity and future prospects.”
Scientific American’s Climate Lies
“In December 2009, Scientific American, once a respected popular-science journal and now a pulp science-fiction picture comic, viciously attacked US Senator James Inhofe because he had proclaimed 2009 to be the Year of the Skeptic. By skepticism, he meant “standing up and exposing the science, the costs and the hysteria behind global warming alarmism”.”
No Second Class Citizens
Many think that ACT New Zealand is a party for big business. It is a real tragedy that ACT suffers from this stereotype. It is a tragedy because the profile is so out of whack with the reality. I have spent most of my adult life in the Labour Party. For 21 years I...
Learning From New Zealand’s Local Government Experience
Reforms of local government rarely, if ever are advanced by local governments themselves. Invariably reform will only occur as it did in New Zealand if higher government driven by determined reformers do it, not the units of local government themselves.
Energy Myths and Realities
“I’m going to try to do something that seems impossible these days – and that’s have an honest conversation about energy policy, global warming and what it means for America’s energy future – and for you, the generation that will have to live with the consequences of the policy choices we make.”
A High-growth, Low-tax Welfare State
Over the years, the Orewa Rotary Club has hosted provocative speeches that have set the New Zealand political agenda for the coming year. In February 2009, MP, former Minister of Finance, and Frontier Centre Advisory Board member Sir Roger Douglas gave his assessment of recent economic conditions and what governments can and can’t do to deliver prosperity to their citizens.
Ontario Premier McGuinty’s Speech to the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Premier Dalton McGuinty outlines the flaws in Canada’s transfer payment calculations. An excerpt from his speech to the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce on May 8th.
Waves of Unthinking Money
Text of David MacKinnon’s speech to the Frontier Centre on how unsustainable regional subsidies are starting to break an Ontario economy beset by severe competitive pressures.
Equalization: Deal or No Deal? Does it Matter?
An Ontario based policy expert outlines why Ontario can no longer sustain Canada’s flawed equalization system.