Outdated policies that cause Ontario to turn over roughly $11 billion more to the federal government each year than it receives are placing an unfair strain on the province, a public policy think tank said in a report released Monday.
Equalization
The Provinces are Broke, and We’re All on the Hook
A spate of bad news Tuesday reminds us that provincial governments, collectively, have a bigger impact on the national economy than Ottawa. By that measure, we’re in some trouble.
Buchanan defined the Iron Triangle
James Buchanan, known as one of the founders of public choice economics, has just passed away. Public choice economics is essentially the economics of politics and how organized special interests dominate policy-making.
Politics Without Romance
James Buchanan died on Wednesday, at age 93, and the world lost one of its most creative economic thinkers. Though a free-marketeer to his bones, he made his biggest mark and won the Nobel Prize in 1986 for his work studying economic incentives in government.
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Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
The Unintended Consequences of Canada’s Equalization Program: How Canada’s equalization program has some provinces more equal than others
Although well-intended, Canada’s equalization program has produced a number of unintended consequences in both have and have-not provinces.
North’s New Gold Rush: Mining the Government: $100K for water park that’s frozen for eight months
A few years back, the Yukon territorial government allocated $660,000 to a program designed “to enhance the level of e-commerce activity in Yukon.” Two years later, the money was gone, and all the project had achieved was a rudimentary website with a brief blurb and a defunct phone number.
O Conservatives
No longer is Canada’s Conservative Party hamstrung by a minority government. On Monday, 61 percent of registered voters trekked to the polls to hand Prime Minister Stephen Harper his first clear majority in the House of Commons.
Newly Rich Newfoundland Still Enjoying Perks of its ‘Have-Not’ Past
Anyone who still believes Newfoundland is a have-not province should take a close look at its latest budget.
Enough Already
Winnipeg city should be provided the means through taxation power to raise the funds required to build local roads and bridges.
National Post Ed. Board on Equalization
The Post endorses Frontier’s take on Equalization.
National Post Editorial Board: The Budget We’d Like to See
To further demonstrate its bona fides, the government should use this budget to begin reforming Canada’s antiquated and inefficient equalization system.
Ontario: Cash Cow For the Rest of Canada
Reports by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Winnipeg indicate that Ontarians have the least accessible provincial programming in Canada.
Sustainable Underdevelopment? (Part 8 of 8)
That is for Manitobans to decide—are we content to remain a supplicant society, or are we determined to become a more vibrant one, with a new dynamism, pluralism and vitality?