REGINA, SK - The Frontier Centre for Public Policy just released a new paper Separation and Better Government: Adopting an Administrative Firewall on October 1, 2017. This paper examines the centralized and decentralized models of local government in Canada,...
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Valuation Analysis of SaskPower
Executive Summary This analysis arrives at approximations of the value of SaskPower, a provincial Crown corporation owned by the government, and thus the citizens and taxpayers, of the province of Saskatchewan. The valuation ranges could be useful in determining...
Public schools in the northern territories are infected with the cost disease
Education costs are skyrocketing across the north, and there is little evidence that the increased spending has produced better outcomes for students. Policy reforms are needed to bring more consumer choice and competition into education. William Baumol,...
Public schools in Western Canada are infected with the cost disease
Taxpayers have good reasons to be concerned about the skyrocketing costs of education. Recently, William Baumol, professor emeritus of economics at Princeton University, used the term “cost disease“ to describe the exponential increase in the cost of social services—a...
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Our Health Ministers Need to Take a Lesson from Hockey Coaches
Those of you who are tired of my rants about the demise of our once great health system will be pleased to know that this is my last editorial. I am retiring from the BCMJ Editorial Board; currently, I am the longest-serving member (more than 20 years). I have been a...
Zinchuk: Oilpatch Only Spending Half What It Spent in 2014
Back in the lofty, pre-Justin Trudeau government days of 2014, back when oil was booming, pipelines were planned to east and west coasts, and Alberta and Saskatchewan were swimming in money, around $81 billion was spent in capital expenditures (CAPEX) in the Canadian...
Sweden’s Equalization Milk Cow
Sweden’s complex equalization system encourages less successful areas to compound their relative disadvantage in order to maximize payments. They tend to impose higher tax levels, employ more citizens in the public sector and resist reforms in service delivery that have proven successful in the Stockholm area.
The Catalan Health Care Model
On overview of the Catalan Healthcare model from Catalonia, Spain which features a purchaser-provider split.
Ten Myths about Canadian Medicare
A short critique of Canada’s Medicare system which explores 10 common myths used by its defenders.
Dollarize with Care: Argentina’s Lessons for Canada
The 62-cent Canadian Peso means that Florida vacations have become an impossible luxury for most Canadians. More importantly, high levels of taxes and government spending are constantly compromising the real values of our homes, investments and pensions – policies that drive the loonie even lower. The idea of adopting the U.S. dollar might bring a glimmer of hope to some.
The Federalization of Prairie Freshwaters
The federal and provincial governments share jurisdiction for the management of some natural resources and the environment.
Fiscal Equalization Revisited
A luncheon talk at “Equalization: Helping Hand or Welfare Trap?”, a conference co-sponsored by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, the Montreal Economic Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Montreal, 25 October 2001
A Conversation with David Gratzer
Increasingly people have angst about the system. Eight out of ten Canadians in a recent Angus Reid Poll thought the system was in crisis.
Europe: The Third Way/ Die Neue Mitte
A speech delivered by Prime Minister Tony Blair to the Labour Party in London on June 8, 1999