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Ken Boessenkool

By Ken Boessenkool

Ken Boessenkool is Executive Director of Conservatives for Clean Growth. He is a past policy advisor to Preston Manning, Ralph Klein, Jim Dinning, Ric McIver, Christy Clark and Stephen Harper.

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A neighbourhood of townhouses is seen in an aerial view in Richmond, B.C., on Wednesday May 16, 2018. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press.
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Looking to fix housing? Run for mayor, not prime minister

When it comes to solving our housing crisis, expanding government to fix bad government policies makes no sense at all.

By Ken Boessenkool - Posted on April 27, 2022
A wind farm is shown near Pincher Creek, Alta., in a March 9, 2016, file photo. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press.
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Conservatives will vote for a strong climate plan if it helps them win

Even if there was a time when a Conservative rallying cry for lower taxes could defeat a Liberal rallying cry for a strong climate plan, that time is now firmly in the rear-view mirror.

By Ken Boessenkool - Posted on March 1, 2022
Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole gives his concession speech at his election night headquarters during the Canadian federal election in Oshawa, Ont., September 21, 2021. Adrian Wyld, The Canadian Press.
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The conservative case against the Reform Act

Just because something is unpopular, doesn’t make it wrong. Or unwise. 

By Ken Boessenkool - Posted on October 20, 2021
The Senate is pictured on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press.
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Turn the Senate back into Canada's house of memory

Creeping independence is making our partisan politics weaker and our politicians dumber.

By Ken Boessenkool - Posted on October 14, 2021
Conservative leader Stephen Harper talks with mothers and their children after speaking during a campaign stop in Saskatoon on October 7, 2015. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press.
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To succeed in the modern age, conservatives must emphasize social conservatism

The pandemic offered Conservatives a chance to robustly defend the use of the institution of government to support families and communities. Instead, they fell back economic conservatism and populist tendencies — and found themselves well outside the mainstream.

By Ken Boessenkool - Posted on July 15, 2021
Former prime minister Stephen Harper applied the principles of free markets to build the largest new social program in at least a generation. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press.
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Ken Boessenkool: The time has come for a new family agenda

In the coming decades, Conservatives must apply the tried-and-true agenda of free markets, subsidiarity and comparative advantage to a new priority: strengthening Canadian families.

By Ken Boessenkool - Posted on June 4, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a campaign stop at a daycare in St. John's on Sept. 17, 2019. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Ken Boessenkool: The good, the bad and the opportunity in the federal child care plan

By injecting dollars into provincial programs prior to reaching agreements with the provinces, Ottawa has gotten things a little backwards. Still, there are good reasons to think we can muddle towards a better outcome if they really want to do so.

By Ken Boessenkool - Posted on May 3, 2021
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