Yesterday, PBS Newshour's coverage of Margaret Thatcher's passing last night included a great interview with two former high level officials from the Reagan administration, George Schultz and James Baker. The one comment that stuck with me was Baker's comment that...
Role of Government
Ralph Klein, RIP
Love him or hate him, one has to admit that Ralph Klein was a remarkable politician.
NDP MP calls on government to disclose cost of Superbowl ads
Some of you may have noticed that the Government of Canada was running Canada’s Economic Action Plan™ commercials during the Superbowl. As most of you know, the commercial slots during the Superbowl are vastly more expensive than typical slots. I voiced my displeasure (to put it mildly) on Facebook, and I’m happy to see that the New Democrats have taken up this issue.
Strengthening Fiscal Responsibility Through Decentralization: Empower local voters to increase government accountability and efficiency
The constitution allocates responsibility over most policy areas exclusively to the provinces or the federal government. But the federal government routinely oversteps its bounds. To create more accountable, more efficient government, the federal government should step back and allow the provinces and municipalities to fund and deliver the services that they are responsible for.
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Time to Stop Lockdowns, Vaccine Mandates and Crushing Our Charter of Rights
If one was to discuss the state of the world’s democracies in September of 2019, it would look entirely different than it does today in 2022. Three years ago, Canadians generally thought that: our democracy was relatively strong and citizens would defend their...
Propaganda Rules the World
One of the greatest books that explain how the world works is Propaganda by Edward Bernays. The man dubbed “the father of public relations” applied the psychological ideas of his uncle Sigmund Freud upon the masses, triggering their basic motivations to the benefit of...
Why are Australians Richer than Us?
Australian GDP per capita is now A$47,181. That’s about 40% higher than New Zealand’s A$33,682, at present market exchange rates. Even Tasmanians, their “Clean and Green” poor cousins, at only $35,253, are richer than New Zealanders. Western Australians, are the...
The Selfish Generation gets Greedier by the Day
We Greedy Oldies should be ashamed of ourselves. And the old boys and girls on our councils should be the most ashamed. These Councillors want to expand their empires, build their monuments, and save the planet. But they don’t want to send the bill to their ratepayers...
The Permitted Baseline Test
Several of you have responded asking why the Permitted Baseline Test is so important,� or have asked for more information as to what it is and how it works. It seems to me that the permitted baseline test provides a useful "litmus" test as to whether a planning...
Democratic Reform Study – A Story With No Legs
The stories deal with the Frontier Centre’s role in a federal consultation on that subject, and allege that our organization has somehow predetermined the conclusions of that process. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Sympathy for the Devil
John Robson’s take on why the government should spend money to save money.
Tony’s Policy Map for Gordon
Tony Blair is seeking to force Gordon Brown to sign up to a far-reaching agenda of new Labour reforms before he leaves office, according to a leaked letter to the prime minister.
Others Pay for Quebec
The Lucids are losing. That is, this group of Quebecers headed by former premier Lucien Bouchard are losing the debate they themselves started two years ago when they proposed an austerity program to meet the financial and demographic problems looming ever larger in...
J. R. Shackleton, Dean, University of Westminster Business School
Margaret Thatcher and John Major in turn radically reshaped labour market regulation in Britain but, when Tony Blair and “New Labour” came into power in 1997, they left the reforms intact. Britain’s economy has been all the stronger for the effort.
America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
Frontier’s book review of Mark Steyn’s America Alone