WINNIPEG, MB, October 1, 2018 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Public Choice Alternative: Canada Post Corporation by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper conducts an in depth valuation of...
Although originally created in 1753, Canada Post Corporation simply known as Canada Post is a Crown Corporation established in 1981 through the Canada Post Corporation Act. Prior to 1981, Canada Post operated as a federal department. The Act aimed at setting a new...
WINNIPEG, MB, September 24, 2018 - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released Public Choice Alternative: ICBC by Ian Madsen, a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper conducts an in depth valuation of the alternative...
The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) is a provincial Crown corporation established and mandated by the Insurance Corporation Act, Insurance (Vehicle) Act and the Motor Vehicle Act.i The raison d'etre of ICBC is to provide universal compulsory auto...
Once again, the world is staging ClimateFest 26, aka the United Nations Conference of the Parties, where peddlers of alternative energy schemes try to plunge their dippers into the river of climate change funding that flows around the world. This funding is generated...
The age-old expression that actions speak louder than words conveys an important insight: character is best judged through action. Anyone can say or promise anything but doing requires ability and skill, discipline and commitment. So, the simplest test of character is...
The Saskatchewan Transportation Company is far from a hallmark of efficiency. But credit should be given when due, and the minister responsible for STC, Don McMorris, deserves recognition for making the politically difficult decision to eliminate three spectacularly wasteful STC routes.
Inhibiting cross border integration with the United States and with Mexico makes the economy generally less efficient and raises costs. It’s a trade barrier that is found in many places and it makes things move less efficiently, raises the costs, and it increases environmental load because you are running more empty vehicles around.
Canadians are crossing the border into the United States to fly from American airports because departing from Canada is much more expensive. In fact, Canadians make up over half of the passengers departing from some American airports near the border. This is a result of government policy.
Ron Penney and David Vardy examine the risks associated with the planned Muskrat Falls hydroelectric mega-project in Atlantic Canada.
Ron Penney and David Vardy examine the risks associated with the planned Muskrat Falls hydroelectric mega-project in Atlantic Canada.
Annually, five million Canadians opt to cross the border and depart from U.S. airports when they fly, because they save on average $428 per person per round-trip. The Canadian government needs to facilitate and encourage competition in the air transportation sector or continue to lose to the U.S.
Canadians are crossing the border into the United States to fly from their airports because departing from Canada is so much more expensive. The tax portion of the Canadian air ticket is ratcheted up with hefty federal fees and taxes. The US sees air transportation as essential to economic growth, while Canada sees it as a source of tax revenue.
Last week, the federal government announced that it was putting up for sale Ridley Terminals Inc., a coal and bulk commodity terminal in Prince Rupert, B.C. Many readers may not have heard of Ridley, and may be wondering why the government of Canada owned a coal terminal in the first place. The idea goes back to the days when mandarins in Ottawa concocted “regional economic development” plans that bore little resemblance to economic and market facts of life.
Alberta’s Minister of Transportation announced the government is looking into building a high speed rail from Calgary to Edmonton. In order to be profitable, high speed rail must connect highly densely populated areas and transport huge numbers of people each day, and Alberta could not meet these criteria.