Executive Summary Since 2015 Manitoba has restrained the growth in provincial government administration to a relatively modest 7.9 percent, which is slightly below the growth in the population. Restraint at the provincial level has allowed Manitoba to do slightly...
Core Public Sector Reform
57 Policy Proposals for Future Leaders to Help Make the Canadian Economy Soar
Executive Summary The various federal political parties are all promoting the policy agendas they believe will foster a sustainably high quality of life for all Canadians. It remains to be seen whether they will attain the success that they aim to achieve. In some...
Federal Employment Growth Unsustainable
Why work for yourself when taxpayers can pay you instead? In the past seven years, more Manitobans than ever have chosen the job security and benefits of federal employment, while the self-employed have begun to vanish. Statistics Canada snapshots show the most...
Right Sizing Manitoba Public Sector Stalls
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister might best be remembered as the Grinch who stole the 2020 Christmas, forbidding citizens from in-person shopping and gathering for the holiday. However, he has another legacy, more like the Canadian Tire Christmas commercials that...
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How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
Public Policy: An Introduction
Policy makes all the difference in creating wealth.
The Global Fiscal Crisis: The future of public spending
The Executive Director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable has some insightful thoughts for the world at large in a new Frontier Centre Backgrounder.
David MacKinnon Speaks on Taxation and the Economy
Listen to David MacKinnon speak about costs of Public Industry in Canada here. (30 minutes)
Mart Laar, Prime Minister of Estonia (1992-94 and 1999-2002)
Frontier discusses the Baltic Tiger in a conversation with Mart Laar, the former Prime Minister of Estonia.
J. R. Shackleton, Dean, University of Westminster Business School
Margaret Thatcher and John Major in turn radically reshaped labour market regulation in Britain but, when Tony Blair and “New Labour” came into power in 1997, they left the reforms intact. Britain’s economy has been all the stronger for the effort.
Richard Vedder, Ohio University, on the optimal size of government
The size of government in Western democracies has outgrown the point at which they offer the most optimal results for citizens. That has generally reduced standards of living and levels of efficiency in the public sector.
William D. Eggers, Senior Fellow, the Manhattan Institute
One of the world’s most accomplished scholars in the fields of re-inventing government, privatizations and e-government discusses these and related issues.
The Flypaper Effect
This paper jointly published by Halifax’s Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Frontier Centre demonstrates that equalization subsidies simply inflate the size of the recipient province’s public sectors, more government personnel with higher salaries, at the cost of more effective public services.
Andrew Coyne, National Affairs columnist, the National Post
Andrew Coyne is best known to Canadians for his writing in the National Post> and his panel appearances on CBC-TV’s The National. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses several principles and the chances for their implementation by Stephen Harper’s government.