Sitting on top of one of the world’s largest and richest natural resource warehouses is turning into quite a disconcerting distraction. While much of Canada’s population – the heavily urban part for whom “rural” means Whistler, Muskoka, or Mont Tremblant – likes to...
Public Finance & Fiscal Federalism
Peckford: Rex Murphy ‘s Column, Danielle Smith and Provincial Rights
Rex Murphy and I see the world and country in much the same way. And we both hail from the Country’s eastern most Province. And he is a national treasure when it comes to articulating the concerns of Canadians about the governance of this place. A true wordsmith...
Preston Manning: Canada’s Economic Future
The following is a condensed version of a speech given by Preston Manning at a Frontier Centre for Public Policy event in Winnipeg on Sept. 22, 2022. Watch the video here. What are Canada’s strengths? We don’t have the largest population. We don’t have the largest...
Manitoba’s Public Sector Swells While the Private Economy Dwindles
Executive Summary Since 2015 Manitoba has restrained the growth in provincial government administration to a relatively modest 7.9 percent, which is slightly below the growth in the population. Restraint at the provincial level has allowed Manitoba to do slightly...
Featured News
How to Turn Free Citizens Into Compliant Serfs
Free citizens have minds of their own and want to pursue their lives as they see fit. This is inconvenient for the elites, who wish to be in charge of everyone’s lives so that they can show their superiority and gain benefit for themselves and their friends. So the...
Demographia International Housing Affordability – 2023 Edition Released
Demographia International Housing Affordability rates middle-income housing affordability in 94 major housing markets in eight nations: Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. This edition covers the third...
The Global Fiscal Crisis: The future of public spending
The Executive Director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable has some insightful thoughts for the world at large in a new Frontier Centre Backgrounder.
Breakfast on the Frontier -Treasury Board – With Reg Alcock
Listen to Reg Alcock speak at Lunch on the Frontier about the Treasury Board and Canada's Economy here. (64 minutes)
Restoring Peter Lougheed’s Original Vision
The Alberta government needs to make regular deposits into the Heritage Fund says the Frontier Centre’s Director of Research, Mark Milke. Since Alberta became debt-free, the province has taken in over $47-billion in resource revenues while depositing only $3.9 billion into the Heritage Fund.
On Amending the Balanced Budget Law – Bill 38
Testimony of Peter Holle, President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy to the Standing Committee on Legislative Affairs, Manitoba Legislature.
June 5, 2008 (From Hansard)
Mart Laar, Prime Minister of Estonia (1992-94 and 1999-2002)
Frontier discusses the Baltic Tiger in a conversation with Mart Laar, the former Prime Minister of Estonia.
A Coming Revenue Crunch?
The Frontier Centre, in partnership with the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies in Halifax, presents an AIMS study rating the 2006/07 budget performance of the western provinces and Ontario ranking fiscal health, budget transparency and budget impacts.
Niels Veldhuis, Senior Research Economist, the Fraser Institute – Second Interview
In the face of significant tax and regulatory competition from its Western neighbours, Manitoba could use a broad range of reform levers to improve its economic performance.
The Flypaper Effect
This paper jointly published by Halifax’s Atlantic Institute for Market Studies and the Frontier Centre demonstrates that equalization subsidies simply inflate the size of the recipient province’s public sectors, more government personnel with higher salaries, at the cost of more effective public services.
There is no fiscal imbalance
Canada’s cities and towns are not starving. Most of them are solidly stuck in the 1970s and far behind U.S. and British cities when it comes to sensible, taxpayer-friendly approaches such as privatization, contracting out and competition in general.