It’s time for the government to sell or shut down CMHC
IAN MADSEN: It’s unclear if the feds are doing higher-risk, lower-income mortgage debtors any real favours
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Tag: Crown corporations
Via Rail should be shut down or sold by the federal government
IAN MADSEN: Operating and capital funding from the federal government for Via has been huge: $548M in 2019 (before COVID-19) and $597M in 2021
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A clear example of why government and business shouldn’t mix
IAN MADSEN: Canadian gold-mining company Centerra is engaged in a legal and political dispute with the government of Kyrgyzstan, a chronically unstable former Soviet republic
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Crown corporations are simply money pits
IAN MADSEN: State ownership means subservience of profitability to public policy aims. The taxpayers who are supposedly the ultimate shareholders have no real influence (FREE)
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CBC has outlived its usefulness
JOSEPH QUESNEL: The policy rationale for the existence of the CBC no longer meets the reality of the modern age
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Want to pay for medical supplies? Stop funding CBC
IAN MADSEN: Our health-care budgets were already greatly strained before the COVID-19 crisis; they’re completely blown out now (FREE membership content)
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Manage provincial debt by controlling Crown projects
EAMONN BROSNAN: In Newfoundland and several other provinces, major power projects have created huge public debt (FREE membership content)
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Take the jolt out of Manitoba’s excess power generation
RANDY BOLDT: Manitoba Hydro should look for ways to increase domestic demand by displacing non-renewable energy consumption (FREE membership content)
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It’s time to sell SaskPower
DONAL GILL: This Crown corporation’s long-term future is safest in private, rather than public, hands (FREE membership content)
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CMHC nudging more aggressively into housing market
IAN MADSEN: The risk of housing price declines piles onto the risk CMHC already takes on when insuring mortgages (FREE content)
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Manitoba’s solar program lacks the energy to sustain itself
There’s no apparent reason why there should be any subsidization of solar installations (FREE)
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Has Saskatchewan Government Insurance outlived its purpose?
A private insurance corporation would be better suited to take on any risk, instead of leaving taxpayers to bear losses (FREE)
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