Publications
Laurentian Canada Determined to Kill Oil Sands Development
As predicted weeks ago, Albertans did not need to hold their breath for Ottawa’s approval of the Frontier oil sands mine. Reports of massive opposition within the Liberal Party caucus and rumours of an appeasing “economic aid” package for the province were strong indicators that the federal cabinet had no intentions to approve the Frontier …
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Alberta’s problem isn’t geography
Regressive and oppressive Iranian Shiite mullahs have proven to be more reasonable business counterparts than former World Wildlife Fund apparatchiks in Ottawa, populist nationalists in Quebec City, and the rigid eco-zealous alliance of Greens and New Democrats in Victoria. This is Alberta’s problem!
Independence If Necessary … The Winning Conditions
Freedom Conference 2019 Where Do We Go From Here? Separation is not really the right language we want to use. What I want this conversation to turn towards is the winning conditions. I am not in favour of changing just for the sake of changing stuff, but I think we have all come to realize …
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Rushing to Have an Alberta Independence Referendum Is a Bad Gamble
Whether one endorses or opposes the option of an independent Alberta, Albertans would do well to consider the option carefully.
Canada Should Fix Equalization and Other Regional Subsidies Now
The fundamental objection to equalization and equalization-type provisions in many federal programs is that they are entirely counterproductive. They do exactly the opposite of what legislators intended for them to do. Equalization and similar provisions fund programming in recipient provinces that is more generous than in those provinces whose citizens are net contributors to them. …
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Feds Shortchange Alberta Once More
Those who argue that the Canadian federation exhibits plenty of fiscal and program biases against Prairie Canadians will likely see further evidence to that effect, with the most recent study published by the Halifax-based Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS). The study, Re-thinking Student Job Subsidies, authored by David Murrell and Alan Chan, is subtitled …
[Red Deer Speech] Separation if necessary … The Winning Conditions
By Marco Navarro-Génie, President of the Haultain Research Institute. Good morning, and thank you for that introduction. Thank you to Danny for inviting me to speakhere today. I am a guy of many hats and I appear here this morning as a senior fellow of theFrontier Centre for Public Policy, and as president of the …
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Politically blocked isn’t the same as geographically landlocked
The current problem isn’t that Alberta and Saskatchewan are landlocked per se. Many territories in the world – independent states and sub-national states – are landlocked but are very prosperous without the obstructing actions of their neighbours.
Tide-Water Access: Redefining Canada’s Internal Boundaries
This paper examines the fundamental rights of Albertans and Saskatchewanians have to tidewater, riparian rights, economic rights, and mobility rights; and the neglect of those rights by the federal government for the past 115 years, when decisions were based on a different set of circumstances and not on the future outlook for these Canadian citizens. …
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Extinction Rebellion is an Apocalyptic Cult
XR are prepared to go to prison and, like most cults, are prepared to wreak havoc onto the world until the world meets their demands and converts, non-violently for now. But that may change. Their sense of urgency may turn in frustration to violent desperation, prompting their twisted logic to jump to vandal criminal action.