Reading Time: 3 minutes With more than $1 trillion locked in underperforming assets, Crown ownership is a hugely important issue for public policy debate
Author: Ian Madsen
Federal government should sell EDC before risks get too high
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Crown lender plays in an international vipers’ nest, so controversy and risk may be inevitable
Privatization only way to help Manitoba Hydro – and the province
Reading Time: 3 minutes The badly managed Crown corporation put a whole province at risk of austerity and diminished economic opportunities
Time to unplug Manitoba Hydro
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Crown corporation is an archaic operation based on faulty principles, bad management and outdated market conditions
Shove EDC off taxpayers’ shoulders and into the private sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s export credit agency is good at what it does. But part of that is taking risks with taxpayers’ money. It’s time for that to end
The case for privatizing Crown utilities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Selling slow-moving, inflexible Toronto Hydro would benefit both taxpayers’ pocketbooks and the service they receive
Time to spark a revolution in the power utility sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unsustainable debts, regulatory structure and evolving market conditions are holding utilities back
One big asteroid could ruin the mining industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes The space race is on and the payoff is an untold cache of precious metals, large enough to completely dwarf the world’s biggest mining companies
Prepping for the reality of privatizing Canada’s power utilities
Reading Time: 3 minutes The uncertain future of Puerto Rico’s badly managed power utility (PREPA) should serve as a clear warning to several provincial governments
Canada needs to respond to U.S. tax reform
Reading Time: 3 minutes Companies in the U.S. will have more cash to give pay raises to employees, increase investment or raise dividends