Reading Time: 3 minutes A rule requiring payments to grow – no matter what the circumstances – can only exacerbate regional friction
Tag: Federal-provincial relations
Canadians’ US$38-million-a-day gift to Americans
Reading Time: 4 minutes Failure to build pipelines leaves us with no choice but to sell our oil to the U.S. at cheap prices, leaving it to sell its own oil at the international price
Making sense of health funding dollars and cents
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are provincial winners and losers in the changing world of the Canada Health Transfer and the future could hold even larger discrepancies in funding
Canada needs a national policy to right our economic ship
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our trust-the-status-quo mindset is part of the problem. And our commitment to globalization must come with a Canada-first policy
Cross-border beer and the case for in-Canada free trade
Reading Time: 3 minutes Free trade continues to be valued, as it was at Confederation, both for its economic benefits and its potential to promote Canadian unity
Trump’s isolationism may spur Canadians to pull together
Reading Time: 4 minutes His election should be a wake-up call for Canadians who have been sleepwalking into an over-dependency on the United States
Sharing the wealth is the Canadian – and Albertan – way
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wildrose’s attack on equalization payments is based on a skewed view of the program and a lack of respect for the true Alberta perspective
P.E.I. premier speaks truth on internal trade in Canada
Reading Time: 4 minutes The federal government has three legal avenues to ensure trade liberalization between provinces. It should take them
Canada’s internal trade challenge: making 191 words count
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s one thing for our premiers to agree in principle to freer internal trade, but we’ve been down this road before without success
Could legal pot finally liberate Canadian booze?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The final vestiges of a moral crusade against booze could finally be buried by legalized marijuana