There is a conflict of interest when a government must decide if it will call an inquiry into its own conduct. The solution is to introduce a major role for an independent official. That person would be a preliminary investigator examining the need for an inquiry, considering carefully its scope and the protections to be given to those under scrutiny, and would make a decision or a public recommendation to the government of the day.
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Greece’s Cosseted Classes Fight Red Tape Reform
After a year full of strikes protesting reforms and budget cuts, Greece is bracing for more unrest. The Socialist government’s efforts to liberalize the country’s hidebound service industries is threatening to provoke a storm of protests from groups ranging from taxi drivers to bakers.
Media Release – Public Administration Wage Growth: Comparing rates of wage growth in industries across the Canadian economy (1998-2009)
Between 1998 and 2009, wage growth for federal government public administration workers grew by 59%. This compares to an average rate of wage growth of just 30% across the rest of the economy.
Public Administration Wage Growth: Comparing rates of wage growth in industries across the Canadian economy (1998-2009)
Between 1998 and 2009, wage growth for federal government public administration workers grew by 59%. This compares to an average rate of wage growth of just 30% across the rest of the economy.
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Process, Effectiveness, Efficiency, Accountability and Transparency Inspectorate, ‘PEEATI’
A litany of disastrous decisions have sometimes cost lives and definitely many billions of dollars. Effectively cancelling the Global Public Health Intelligence Network; the failure to implement the pandemic preparedness protocols developed by Ottawa’s public health...
Foreign Influence in Canadian Economy?
Foreign influence or interference has become a mediatic topic. The fear and suspicion of interference in the elections and democratic process have been in news headlines. For the western countries, the suspicion bears on Russia and China. Revisionist powers have a...
PM’s Fiscal Adventure
For the foreseeable future, governing federally will mostly be about technicalities, since no money will be left for anything interesting, let alone for significant tax cuts.
Flat Is Beautiful
If old Europe cannot beat the flat-taxers of new Europe, it may have to join them.
Eliminating School Property Taxes in Manitoba
The Province of Manitoba should assume full responsibility for public school financing and abandon property taxes as a revenue source.
Reduced School Taxes KAP Victory
The Government of Manitoba has reduced the education tax levels on farmland.
The Republican Future
The Republican sweep is a watershed event in postwar history which portends a major intellectual shift in the war of ideas.
Alberta Taxes Approach U.S. Levels – 2004 Tax Load Index
The 2004 Tax Load Index offers a simple measure of tax competitiveness across western Canada and adjacent jurisdictions, including Ontario and two American states, North Dakota and Minnesota. It sums up a jurisdiction’s key tax rates – the top provincial marginal...
Alberta Taxes Approach U.S. Levels
The 2004 Tax Load Index offers a simple measure of tax competitiveness across western Canada and adjacent jurisdictions, including Ontario and two American states, North Dakota and Minnesota. It sums up a jurisdiction’s key tax rates – the top provincial marginal rates (including surcharges) on personal and corporate income, as well as payroll, capital, sales taxes, and for the first time this year health taxes* – to present a picture of the total tax burden, and to benchmark them against our neighbours’ tax load.
Jon Caldara, President, the Independence Institute
Frontier interviews Jon Caldara, President of the Independence Institute, on the issue of TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights, June 1, 2004
A Decade of TABOR
Colorado has in its TABOR legislation the strictest tax-and-spending limitation of the 50 states. This paper analyzes TABOR’s effect on Colorado, contrasting taxing and spending before and after enactment of TABOR.