People tend to adopt those products and practices that make their lives better. For those few (in the national context) who work in the largest downtown areas, transit makes their lives better. For those working elsewhere, cars do.
Role of Government
Governments Already “Stimulate” Business
Governments have spent $182 billion on corporate welfare over 12 years. That’s “stimulus” enough.
Let Detroit Face The Music
A bailout would only buy time, allowing Detroit to make it to the next bailout, with government running the show in an increasingly distorted and regulated market. A bankruptcy process should install a permanent reorganization, with the companies (or whatever combination emerges) still part of a viable auto industry operating in a genuine market.
Bailing Out the Big Three
A view of bail out mania from the lighter side …
Featured News
Raw-Milk Prohibition Reveals Policy Backwardness
Prohibitionists Dig In Heels for Supply Management, Ignore U.S. Success There is a legal way to consume raw milk in Canada: buy it in the United States and bring it home. Of the 13 states bordering Canada, 12 have legal raw milk. More than 40 have it legal in some...
The Pawlowski Decision
In the Alberta Health Services v. Artur Pawlowski and Dawid Pawlowski decision last September, a Court of Queen’s Bench justice found the two brothers in contempt of court. The Pawlowski brothers openly challenged health ordinances and court orders and did not deny...
Bottom Up Public Policy Works Better
The federal NDP is engaged in serious soul searching, with only 9% of Canadians supporting the party in a recent opinion poll. Against this bleak backdrop, a group of party activists has been working on the “New Politics Initiative”, an attempt to redefine where the party is going and what it stands for.
*Profits Or People: A Bogus Dilemma
This talk is dedicated to John Campbell. Most Saturday mornings, on Radio New Zealand, John instructs his listeners, in his very amiable style, about the evils of profits. A self-confessed “liberal leftie”, he tells us that people should come before profits.
Andrei Illarionov, Putin’s Economics Advisor
The Kremlin’s top economics mind and President Putin’s chief advisor interviewed by the Frontier Centre.
Canada Should Keep “First Past The Post” Voting System
There are as many electoral engineers in this world as there are social engineers. They want to devise ingenious systems to advance vague concepts such as “inclusiveness”, while failing to define adequately what that means.
Russians Understand Optimal Size Of Government
Russian President Putin’s chief economic advisor is applying a dose of radical medicine to supercharge that country’s economic growth rate and living standards.
Moving Manitoba Beyond That 70s Show
Four imaginative solutions to Manitoba’s perennial policy paralysis.
Nav Canada
Statistical highlights of performance improvements in Canada’s air traffic control system.
Alberta’s Liquor Policy Bonanza
The consequences of Alberta’s privatization of liquor retailing have been better than anyone expected.
*A Second Go at a “Second Economic Revolution”?
On March 6, 1997, in the annual state-of-Russia address to the Federal Assembly, President Boris Yeltsin outlined a package of reforms that some Russian observers called a second economic revolution.