National Citizens Inquiry
Government
Leaders On The Frontier – Alberta’s Broken Relationship With Ottawa – With Dennis Modry
Big Topics & Big Ideas
Unhinged Culture Warriors Are The Real ‘Threat To Democracy’
Political issues always have a history. Looking back, scholars have identified a unique mixture of classical liberal and conservative thought that produced one of the most promising eras in the history of the English-speaking peoples. Classical liberalism emerged in...
Six Years Of Failure
It’s customary in the run up to an election for voters to ask, “Do I feel better off today than when this Government first took office?” Since Labour is a second term government, let’s turn our mind back to 2017. After nine years of National, economists were...
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
A Snapshot of Property Rights Protection in Canada After 10 years
Alberta Politics and Empty Promises of Health-care Solutions
The writ has been dropped and Albertans are off to the polls on May 29. That leaves just four weeks for political leaders and voters to sort out what is arguably the most divisive, yet significant, issue for this election - health care. On Day 2, NDP leader Rachel...
David Seymour: From the Frontier Centre for Public Policy to the Heart of New Zealand Politics
ACT leader David Seymour speaks during a media conference in Parliament on Sept. 28, 2021. (Getty Images) Winnipeg Man. – The winds of political change are sweeping across New Zealand as David Seymour, leader of the ACT Party, brings a renewed emphasis on...
Qualified Policy Staffers Are Critical For Successful Governments
Elected officials, particularly those who hold the levers of power in governments, are only as effective as the staff they employ. Staying true to the principles that got them elected is much easier when they have staff that are all-in on the mission of the party who...
Competence, Not Size, Determines The Ideal Cabinet
For many years past, and probably many to come, fiscal conservatives have told governments to have small cabinets. Let’s face it–it’s a symbolic gesture at best and the last place where saving money should be a factor. Effectiveness should be our goal, not...
The Tragic Consequences of Big Government
There has never been a successful socialist government. Despite the arguments of its advocates, socialism is indisputably the worst economic method there is. Frankly, socialism is a vehicle governments or individuals use to implement their most extreme forms of...
Ottawa’s and BC’s Plans for Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples will Destroy Canada
“A government’s most basic function is the protection of its sovereignty.” – Simon Schama Internal attacks by our political and judicial elites against the sovereignty of our country’s federal, provincial, and territorial governments are placing the existence of...
Frontier Centre’s David Leis Testifies to the National Citizens Inquiry
“We need to do better”
Leaders On The Frontier: Where Public Health Went Wrong
with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorf
Leaders on the Frontier: Sir Roger Douglas
What can Canada learn from New Zealand?
Money Talks: Roger Douglas on Losing Faith in All the Parties – Including Act
Roger Douglas, former Labour Finance Minister and co-founder of the Act Party, is plainly unimpressed with modern politics. “Look at the last 20 years, you tell me anyone, any Government that’s done anything,” he says. Douglas, now 86, probably has more right than...