The problem with this approach is that it is inadequate to meet the serious fiscal challenges we face as a country and, as this week’s new economic forecast illustrates may result in economically damaging increases to the deficit if revenue growth turns out to be slower than expected.
Role of Government
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Bridge: Canadians and Michiganders stand to lose from government bridge
The Government of Canada has reached an agreement with the State of Michigan to build a new international bridge. Canadian taxpayers would pay the entire cost. However, a private company already plans to build a new bridge. The government would be better off allowing the private sector to absorb the risk.
Government Doesn’t Give Us Our Culture: Great culture is the result of strong individuals, families and communities
The Alberta Government exaggerates its part in the development of the great culture that the province of Alberta has. Alberta’s culture is the product of its people, and not the creature of government.
Co-operation Over Devolution
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith made headlines yesterday after suggesting on CTV’s question period that Alberta could work collaboratively with the newly elected Parti Québécois government in Quebec.
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Fostering a Constructive, Business-Friendly Regime Sustains Innovation, Not Government Money
For standards of living to grow, productivity growth must be strong and continually renewed. That is one notion that nearly all economists can agree on. So, it is not surprising that politicians scramble to discover new or not-so-new ways to boost productivity growth....
Big Tech Influence Can Tip Elections
Behavioural psychologist Robert Epstein believes Google can and does influence voters and that research teams in Canada and elsewhere need to monitor how users are being swayed. Epstein, the former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and founder of the American...
Economist Milton Friedman Dies at 94
Milton Friedman, free-market economist who won the Nobel Prize for economics, dies at age 94.
What Can We Learn from Frédéric Bastiat?
An overview of 19th century writer Frédéric Bastiat’s opinions of the proper role of government from his book The Law and the circumstances that brought about those opinions.
Disillusioned Ohio Voters Make GOP Pay
The Democrats' call for change has echoed loudly across Ohio as voters savaged Republicans for the war in Iraq, corruption and just about everything else that's gone wrong inside and outside the state since 2004. Widespread disillusionment helped make this bellwether...
Richard Vedder, Ohio University, on the optimal size of government
The size of government in Western democracies has outgrown the point at which they offer the most optimal results for citizens. That has generally reduced standards of living and levels of efficiency in the public sector.
Ottawa Should Leave Unemployment Insurance to the Provinces
The Atlantic provices need to grow up and join the 2tst century and stop relying on Employment Insurance for income.
‘Lotto 10-40’ and the Decline in Jobs
A new study compares the history of unemployment in New Brunswick and Maine. Sharing the same borders, resources and economy should there be any drastic differences in their unemployment rates?
Alberta’s Model Economy
The rest of the country could learn a thing or two from the way Alberta’s hands off policy leanings
A Little Friendly Talk About Alberta Separatism
The three main resolutions passed called for Ottawa staying out of provincial affairs, a reformed Senate and an effective counterbalance to activist courts.
The NDP Won’t Stop Preaching to the Converted
Globe columnist Jeffrey Simpson on why the NDP is stuck intellectually in the past.