There is only one taxpayer pool. Whether we are taxed by the provincial or federal governments, it all comes from one increasingly small pocket. The federal government has constitutional health care sovereignty over: Quarantine; The military; Indigenous people;...
Core Public Sector Reform
Stagflation Begs for less Government not More
The era of low interest rates and inflation has ended, and now both are mushrooming higher. Canadian year-over-year inflation was 7.7 per cent in May, the highest in nearly 40 years but this author predicts it will go still higher. It’s a worthy time for governments...
Manitoba 2036 A Concept
Sometimes inspiring action is about presenting a vision of what things could be like in the future with a little vision. It's 2036 and Manitoba's population just passed 3 million and its economy is booming so how did it get there?
Politicians almost universally believe that timely, appropriate and voluntary action to remedy structural economic imbalance should be avoided at all costs because it amounts to political suicide. Consequently, as studies by the Organization for Economic Cooperation...
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Traditional Teaching is not Obsolete
Artificial intelligence has come a long way. Unlike the rudimentary software of the past, modern-day programs such as ChatGPT are truly impressive. Whether you need a 1,000-word essay summarizing the history of Manitoba, a 500-word article extolling the virtues of...
Ottawa’s Policies Defeat Its Critical Minerals Push
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a recent rush visit to the Saskatchewan Research Council’s experimental rare earth refining facility in Saskatoon. He touted his government’s efforts to promote rare earth discovery, development, and extraction, along with the...
Geoffrey Segal, Director of Government Reform, Reason Foundation
Frontier Centre:You have described the contracting out of government services as a rapidly growing phenomenon. Is it still? Geoffrey Segal: Well, rapidly is a very subjective term and it really is relative to past experience. When we look specifically at the United...
Canada’s Growing Public Sector
The gain in public sector employment (federal, provincial and local governments) was 37,800. That meant that private, tax-paying employers must have reduced their workforces by 8,400 jobs.
Opening and Balancing the Books in New Zealand
Former New Zealand Finance Minister Ruth Richardson outlines that country’s Fiscal Responsibility Act.
Lee Kuan Yew – Higher Salaries for Government Ministers?
Singapore’s Prime Minister makes the case for paying cabinet ministers higher salaries.
The Honourable Sir Richard Prebble
A man who sat at the cabinet table during New Zealand’s seminal reforms in governance looks back at what was accomplished and discusses what has happened since.