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Canada’s Productivity Problems Are Deeply Rooted
Canada’s relatively weak productivity is one of the most discussed but least resolved economic problems confronting Canadians. The problem is often attributed to inadequate investment, insufficient competition, internal trade barriers and many other possibilities. The...
Why the Right is Eating the Left’s Lunch
Progressives have abandoned the working class and embraced the oligarchs.
School Trustee Suspensions Happening Far Too Often
It was just a few short years ago that the Pallister government introduced Bill 64. Among other things, Bill 64 would have abolished school boards and replaced elected trustees with provincial appointees. The reaction was fast and furious. The Manitoba School Board...
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Pallister Passports
The Pallister government has recently announced a new tactic in its campaign to persuade more people to become vaccinated - immunization passports. Those carrying passports will not have to isolate for two weeks when returning to Manitoba. Proof of both doses of an...
Raising Income Taxes, Instituting Wealth Taxes on the Affluent Will Hurt Growth, Prosperity and Jobs
Lately, calls by self-identified ‘progressives’ and others who purport to champion ‘equity’ and compelling everyone to pay their ‘fair share’ have grown louder; even more shrill and strident. It seems that ‘social justice warriors’ have rediscovered their previously...
Coming Economic Maelstrom Completely Unnecessary
With one action, in one week, the whole world will boom. I am sharply aware that the upper middle class, the people I grew up among, studied and worked with do not give a damn about the less fortunate. They can’t. They don’t have agency, they have effectively...
Peckford: Rex Murphy ‘s Column, Danielle Smith and Provincial Rights
Rex Murphy and I see the world and country in much the same way. And we both hail from the Country’s eastern most Province. And he is a national treasure when it comes to articulating the concerns of Canadians about the governance of this place. A true wordsmith...
Saskatchewan – Canadian Provincial Healthcare Expenditure Analyses – How Bad Is It, Really?
Healthcare Expenditure Over the past ten years, Saskatchewan’s healthcare expenditure has outpaced the growth rate of the Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) threefold More specifically, Saskatchewan has increased its healthcare spending by 39.4% between 2011...
Peckford: So Why Only Bernier and Peckford Challenging Governments in Court Over Their Cruel Mandates and Lockdowns?
I encounter everyday people who are apologists for former or existing legislators. They don’t understand like you. They were not at the conferences leading up to the Charter and Rights and Freedoms. Balderdash! I wasn’t at the 1867 BNA Act talks either!! Nor was...
Preston Manning: Canada’s Economic Future
The following is a condensed version of a speech given by Preston Manning at a Frontier Centre for Public Policy event in Winnipeg on Sept. 22, 2022. Watch the video here. What are Canada’s strengths? We don’t have the largest population. We don’t have the largest...
Alberta – Canadian Provincial Healthcare Expenditure Analyses – How Bad Is It, Really?
Healthcare Expenditure Alberta healthcare expenditures have outpaced the Canadian Consumer Price Index (CPI) by more than three times the average rate of 5.4% between 2011 and 2018 2018 expenditures slightly declined from the overall high of 38% between 2018 and 2017,...
Part 6: Devine’s Upgraders? Losers or Winners? The Conclusion
This is Part 6 of a 6-part series on the two heavy oil upgraders built in Saskatchewan is based on the book So Much More We Can Be: Saskatchewan’s Paradigm Shift and the Final Chapter on the Devine Government 1982-1991, by Edward Willett, Gerard Lucyshyn and Joseph...
Manitoba’s Public Sector Swells While the Private Economy Dwindles
Executive Summary Since 2015 Manitoba has restrained the growth in provincial government administration to a relatively modest 7.9 percent, which is slightly below the growth in the population. Restraint at the provincial level has allowed Manitoba to do slightly...
Lunch on the Frontier – November 9 2022 with Hon. Grant Devine
Transforming Saskatchewan – Bold Private Sector Driven Success The April 1982 Saskatchewan election proved to be a major turning point in the province's history. Over its nine years in office, the Devine government commenced and completed numerous policy initiatives...