It’s time to get serious about bringing native Canadians into the Canadian economic mainstream.
Universal Medical Savings Accounts
A new Medicare model has the potential to retain universality, restore service levels, control costs and introduce transparency and accountability to the system. That model, Universal Medical Savings Accounts (UMSAs), allocates existing public funding directly to individual citizen-consumers of health-care services.
The Search for Aboriginal Property Rights
The objective of this short paper is to make the case for giving natives the normal property rights that all Canadians enjoy.
A Conversation with Tom Flanagan
Dr. Tom Flanagan has been a professor of political science at the University of Calgary since 1968. His research interests include political philosophy, Canadian Politics, and aboriginal rights.
Rent Control In Winnipeg
This short report discusses the damage caused by rent control in Winnipeg and suggests approaches to ease out of them
Rent Control Part of Winnipeg’s Poor House Prices
Rent control reduces the value of apartments, increasing property taxes for home owners.
*Prairie Finance Ministers Dare to Compare Budgets
If you look solely at provincial income taxes, including medicare premiums, Manitoba looks bad. Its taxes are the highest in Canada, followed by Quebec and Saskatchewan. But if you add in the costs of provincial sales and gasoline taxes (lower in Manitoba and Saskatchewan than elsewhere), the picture changes.