Winnipeg city should be provided the means through taxation power to raise the funds required to build local roads and bridges.
Equalization
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.
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Political Debate over Saskatchewan Equalization
Federal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale and Atlantic Institute President Brian Crowley debate Saskatchewan equalization
Equalization: Welfare Trap or Helping Hand
Brian Lee Crowley, President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, leads a seminar on equalization policy in Winnipeg, April 21, 2005.
The Help that Hurts
The President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Brian Lee Crowley discusses how equalization harms Saskatchewan in a Frontier Centre speech in Regina, April 20, 2005
How Big is Manitoba Government? – PowerPoint
Fraser Institute Senior Research Economist Niels Veldhuis explores the implications of Manitoba’s large public sector, his PowerPoint slide presentation.
Seeking Equalization Madness
Resource agreements with the Maritimes prompt some strong talk about the imbalance of federal and provincial powers.
Saskatchewan Wants New Deal
Now that Newfoundland and Nova Scotia have a new energy revenue deal with the federal government, Saskatchewan wants one.
Crushed by the Helping Hand
Eliminating corporate taxation in the region and reducing federal personal income-tax rates for residents would create the incentives and the capabilities for the firms and citizens of those provinces to improve their lot in life and not trap them in a “have not” status — as does equalization’s current policy mix.
The More Things Stay the Same
The federal and provincial governments renew equalization program without substantive reform. No accountability. No hope of ending the debilitating dependence of the have-not provinces on the charity of the haves.
The Poison Elixir of Equalization
Efforts to get more equalization for Manitoba will push the province further into an insidous welfare trap that increases subsidy dependency by rewarding policies that undermine the private economy.