Reading Time: 4 minutes David Lametti tells AFN he is willing to look at rescinding the Natural Resource Transfer Act of 1930
Tag: Federal-provincial relations
United Conservative Party members rally around Danielle Smith
Reading Time: 5 minutes The two factions within the party are starting to get along
Ottawa gets first taste of the Alberta Sovereignty Act
Reading Time: 4 minutes The history of Western Canada is tainted by Ottawa overreach
Why Danielle Smith should be the next premier of Alberta
Reading Time: 4 minutes It also goes without saying that Smith has her detractors. Is their criticism well-founded or nothing more than political gamesmanship?
Tear down these walls, premiers!
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need to get serious about freeing up interprovincial trade once and for all
Let Quebecers decide the fate of a national pipeline
Reading Time: 3 minutes Confederation was designed as an economic union from sea to sea, linked by infrastructure that crosses provincial borders
Keep federal government from messing with education
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s kindergarten-to-Grade 12 system flourishes because it’s controlled by the provinces, which often show great innovation and creativity
More money won’t necessarily solve health care problems
Reading Time: 4 minutes Instead of asking for more money and all the strings that come attached, the provinces should ask for more freedom to try new delivery models
Alberta’s UCP needs the feds to get Trans Mountain done
Reading Time: 4 minutes It was actually the federal Liberals and Alberta’s previous NDP government that did the heavy lifting needed to get the project started
Canadian capital markets thrive without national regulator
Reading Time: 4 minutes Centralization undermines bottom-up co-ordination already underway between the provinces and territories