The Manitoba election thus far has been dominated by accusations from the NDP that the Pcs will slash government services, and the attempt of the PCs to distance themselves from that reputation. This dynamic has prevented either party from promoting the kind of long term vision that will be required to steer the province through tough global economic times.
Role of Government
Well Worth the Money
Two weeks ago the House of Representatives announced that it would end its nearly 200-year-old page program. What with new technology and all, there just isn’t much need any longer to employ teenagers to take phone messages and carry documents from one member of Congress to another. The program costs $5 million a year, which isn’t much in a $3.8 trillion federal budget, but taxpayers should appreciate any elimination of an unnecessary program.
High Performance Government Versus Minimal Government
One thing that attracted me to the FCPP in the past was its emphasis on high performance government.
David Henderson, Economist
David Henderson, the author of Canada’s Budget Triumph, was interviewed August 10, 2011 during a recent visit to Winnipeg.
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COVID-19 Emergency Powers Nearly Limitless
The war against the invisible enemy of COVID-19 has unfortunately made normal rights and freedoms invisible as well. Another example manifested on September 13 when Saskatchewan’s premier renewed emergency orders for his province. The list of powers he claimed were so...
How to help Harper do what needs to be done
It's a sign of political success that last week's federal budget has already been forgotten. For so fragile a minority as Stephen Harper's, that's good. He hopes to use this budget as a solid, reassuring political springboard to win a majority, probably next year....
Nick Ternette on Christopher Hitchens
It was with some hesitation that I approached the press interview with Christopher Hitchens, who is ranked as one of the top 5 intellectuals in the world. I mean, here I am—a lonely, old socialist interviewing an ex-Marxist and libertarian! I had heard nothing good...
Urban Legend
Jane Jacobs took her pen to my draft and crossed out one phrase, then another. "This isn't clear," she said in her matter-of-fact way, writing in her revisions. "And why isn't the post office mentioned? Or railways?" It was 1994 and I had brought Jane a fund-raising...
Day-care Cheerleaders Roll Out Junk Advocacy Artillery
If, as the cliché goes, the only two certainties in life are death and taxes, a new political certainty is that those attached to institutional day care will regularly slam the federal Conservative plan to scrap the $5 billion program initiated by the now-deposed...
Hitchens Admires Canada’s Afghan Effort
CANADIANS should not let military casualties yank them from their course in Afghanistan, says a leading international political and cultural pundit. "I'm full of admiration for what Canadians are doing in Afghanistan," Christopher Hitchens said in a phone interview...
Do We Still Need Human Rights Commissions?
A Calgary imam’s claims of journalistic hatred should be dismissed;
these agencies were not intended for shutting down a free press.
Life-long labourers?
None of us are guaranteed a paying job for a lifetime. So, what is it about politicians who seem to think that their jobs should be secure indefinitely? By a vote of 14 to 2, city councillors decided not to trust the citizens of Winnipeg in determining whether they...
BC Liquor Model Pushes Prices Higher
It shouldn't surprise anyone that prices for some alcoholic beverages will be higher in private liquor stores than in government-owned B.C. liquor stores. The provincial government's half-hearted and ultimately counterproductive approach to competition in 2002 botched...
Andrew Coyne, National Affairs columnist, the National Post
Andrew Coyne is best known to Canadians for his writing in the National Post and his panel appearances on CBC-TV’s The National. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses several principles and the chances for their implementation by Stephen Harper’s government.