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Tag: Federal politics
There are better tools to make housing more affordable
MARC LEE: An ambitious fiscal effort is needed for the federal government to make affordable housing a human right
Accountability crisis: Feds reward failure with taxpayer-funded bonuses
FRANCO TERRAZZANO: Trudeau binging on bonuses: Government bureaucrats rewarded with tax-funded bonuses despite missed targets
Canada’s energy goals need a reality check
BILL WHITELAW: And Vaclav Smil has a proposal to extricate us from our decarbonization dilemma
Beijing fiddles, while Canada burns
MICHAEL TAUBE: Does Communist China hold the puppet strings in Canadian politics?
Property rights in Canada are a constitutional necessity
JOSEPH QUESNEL: Quebec Man’s land slashed in half due to the 2013 railway tragedy and the compulsory expropriation of his land
What did Marco Mendicino know about the Paul Bernardo transfer?
MICHAEL TAUBE: Questions loom over Public Safety Minister’s involvement
Higher interest rates the price of government inflation
FRANCO TERRAZZANO: The Trudeau government deserves a big chunk of the blame for higher interest rates, higher inflation and rising mortgage payments
Canada’s infant formula embarrassment
SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS: Infant formula shortage continues to plague Canadian parents
Foreign interference inquiry in sight after Johnston’s exit?
MICHAEL TAUBE: The Liberals should use his departure as a means of launching a public inquiry into foreign interference
Modern monetary theory was too good to be true
ROSLYN KUNIN: The promise of MMT – endless unlimited government spending – is a fool’s game
Privileged PSAC bureaucrats don’t deserve a penny more
FRANCO TERRAZZANO: Pay raises during the pandemic and no worries about losing their jobs not enough: They now want up to 47% more from taxpayers
Pay raises for politicians and tax hikes for the rest of us
KRIS SIMS and FRANCO TERRAZZANO: The raise for a backbench MP works out to an extra $5,100. Trudeau is pocketing an extra $10,200
The federal alcohol excise duty needs to go
MICHAEL TAUBE: But tax-and-spend Trudeau Liberals are too drunk on the money this financial pipeline generates to let it go
Trudeau doesn’t know what saving money means
FRANCO TERRAZZANO: Any flicker of hope the Trudeau government will ever balance the budget has vanished
2023 budget finally limits vampire consulting firms in the public service
DAVID MACDONALD and JON MILTON: The cost of consulting firms has mushroomed from $8.4B in 2015 to an estimated $21.4B this year
U.S. election interference contributed to the fall of John Diefenbaker
PAT MURPHY: Deja vu? Then, U.S. interference favoured Pearson’s Liberals. Today, China’s interference favours Trudeau’s Liberals
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