Canada Must Reconsider Its Pipeline Strategy

The revoking of Keystone XL’s permit by US President Joe Biden his first day in office highlights the risk for Canada of depending on a single country for its petroleum product exports. This Economic Note…

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Quebec Must Set Up a Standing Expenditure Review Committee

The return to a balanced budget in the medium term is necessary, and it must be achieved by controlling governmental expenditures. One way to do this is to set up a standing expenditure review committee,…

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How Does the Trump Administration’s Budgetary Record Compare?

As he takes office, President Joe Biden is inheriting a health crisis, an economic crisis compared by some to the 1929 crisis, and mismanaged public finances. This Economic Note sketches a picture of the budgetary…

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"The big takeaway from the pandemic era might not be the ease with which governments steal away our freedom by invoking the alleged necessities of a crisis. The real revelation is how little effort it takes to make many people like it."

‒​J.D. Tuccille, "The COVID-19 Pandemic Keeps Proving Deadly to Liberty," Reason Magazine, September 11, 2020.

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Energy Policies

Western Standard, p. web

To save Canada’s energy industry, we need to end dependence on the US market

The construction of new Canadian pipelines would maximize the volume of fuels transported by the…
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Education

Sun Media Papers

Monopoly school systems make even less sense now

Provincial governments in Ontario and across Canada should follow the example of states in the…
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The Post Millennial, p. web

In praise of ideological diversity

The very nature of diversity, properly understood, makes it impossible to neatly categorize it without…
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