This study examines the growing danger of labour-related work stoppages across Canada. These stoppages refer to both employer-initiated lockouts and worker-led strikes. It argues that Canada has been dealing with an increasing frequency of national work...
Watch a short summary Canada had one of the world’s most efficient and stable administrations. Career bureaucrats understood their roles and were dedicated and professional in their approach. They got their policy direction from their political masters and...
Urgent Reforms Needed Winnipeg, February 5, 2025 – Canada’s public administration is in crisis, warns former MP and Member of the Order of Canada, Dorothy Dobbie, in a groundbreaking new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. The report, Restoring...
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A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
An election in British Columbia presents opportunities to discuss critical policies for the province's future. Here are a few key ideas we hope British Columbians will consider for adoption by their next government, regardless of the political label of that...
Preston Manning: "Competence and ability, not ideology, should be the core criteria for hiring civil servants" I recently had the pleasure of speaking with the Honourable Preston Manning about the ever-growing size of Canada’s federal bureaucracy. Manning, a seasoned...
The profligate pattern in public policy in which politicians damage economies with out-of-control spending, massive borrowing, and higher taxes inevitably leads to fiscal crises, sharp declines in growth, and, ultimately, currency value and living standards. Since...
Preston Manning: Competence and ability, not ideology, should be the core criteria for hiring civil servants
Why do Conservatives go along with woke ideas, woke norms and above all woke people? One of these days we're going to be really sorry we didn't stand up to this nonsense, when the proverbial little boy calls out that the emperor has no clothes. Men can be women?...
It is but a few days before the New Year, and it has been only three months since the NDP became Manitoba’s provincial government. The recent election was much tighter than many people thought. The NDP won with just 4% more votes than the PC’s tally. And, the...
In the 1980’s, the world was infatuated with Japan. Its economy was on fire and was projected to overtake the USA as the world’s number one economy by the year 2000. That came to a grinding halt in the 1990’s as the Japanese stock market collapsed and economic...
New Zealand’s high-tax, pro-lockdown party is smashed at the polls.
Manitoba public sector still much larger than Canadian average