How much debt has and will the Manitoba Government take on?
Equalization
Revitalizing Manitoba:: From Supplicant Society to Diversity and Dynamism
“I call this whole series an intellectual exploration…my continuing attempt to make sure I never find work in this province. I laugh, I’m smiling, but it’s not that funny. So let me just go back briefly to the diagnosis from three years ago. The idea of Manitoba as a supplicant society. I’ll explain more what that’s about, and put that whole criticism in this larger philosophical context, and then get to the very concrete suggestions that I have attempted to make for revitalizing our society.”
Ontario’s Have-Not Economics
With a provincial election coming in October, and Dalton McGuinty’s governing Liberals down in the polls, it’s easy to understand why the Premier and his Finance Minister, Dwight Duncan, would want to get in front of the media as often as possible to defend their record. Unfortunately, their message has been fractured on one key issue.
Will Selinger Ever Turn Off the Spigot?
Day by day over the past two months I became more and more angry and frustrated as I watched Premier Greg Selinger buy the votes of Manitobans with their own tax dollars. He has made announcement after announcement totalling millions of dollars the government doesn’t have and probably never will have.
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Supply Chain Strains Could Cause Shortages and Hoarding
Supply chain problems, both international and domestic, could create shortages and hoarding, and make recent inflationary pressures even worse. Although problems with our ports and railways may beg policy solutions, the short-term response of everyday Canadians should...
New Book: Patients at Risk: Exposing Canada’s Health-care Crisis
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Do We Over-Equalize?
Making the case for a needs-based approach to equalization to prevent over subsidizing recipient provinces in the goal of providing “reasonable” levels of public services.
Improve Federalism By Cutting Duplicity
Since the introduction of the goods and services tax in 2000 the states have received about 20 per cent more than expected, equalling $70 billion in unanticipated revenue. Instead of using their windfall to continue the process of reform and sustain the good economic times, they have expanded the size of government and increased the numbers and salaries of public servants.
Transfer Real Taxing Power to the Provinces
Ontario and the other provinces should put their own tax on the GST base, while the federal government cuts federal transfers and its GST rate to compensate.
Ask Not What Ottawa Can Do for You
Canadians have been taught to think in terms of national entitlements — about “getting.” But entitlements do not build countries. They create insatiable expectations and demands, and then they disappoint.
The Equitable Solution for Equalization is to Get Rid of It
Fiscal Equalization is the way Ottawa “tops up” the provincial tax revenues of weaker provinces. But everyone pays.
The Premiers Have Missed the Point on Equalization
The best outcome the federally appointed panel on equalization could have hoped for would have been unanimous support from all provinces. The second best outcome would have been unanimous denunciation from all provinces. As it turned out, the panel nearly achieved...
Equalization a Raw Deal for Ontario, Experts Say
The Ontario economy is too fragile to absorb an enriched equalization program, top economists have concluded after a thorough examination of various federal funding proposals and the province's economic prospects. Canada's largest province is still struggling to find...
Falling Further Behind
The Doer government should spend more time on serious economic issues like this and less time on bogus marketing exercises like the “Spirited Energy” campaign if it truly wants to make Manitoba a better place to live.
Nothing for the Money
On Thursday, May 11th, AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley spoke to the Empire Club of Canada in Toronto. His topic – equalization. His message – both Ontario and the Maritimes suffer from decades of federal equalization transfers.