The conservative case against the Reform Act
Just because something is unpopular, doesn’t make it wrong. Or unwise.
Public Policy
MP Mike Lake on how to use every waking minute to get things done
In this Hub Dialogue, part of our new policy in action series, The Hub’s editor-at-large Sean Speer speaks to Mike Lake, the member of parliament for the riding of Edmonton — Wetaskiwin.
Rob Leone: The case for private universities in Canada
Criticisms levelled at Canadian private universities also often fail to acknowledge the challenges that can exist at publicly assisted universities: enormous class sizes, an overreliance on sessional adjunct instructors and students who are just numbers that fall through the cracks.
Trevor Tombe: Canada’s recovery looks strong. So do we need more fiscal stimulus?
As Canada emerges from the pandemic, one thing is increasingly clear: only months after the government revealed its fiscal plans, pitched as fiscal stimulus, the macroeconomic case for higher spending is significantly weaker. Stimulus may no longer be needed.
Matt Spoke: While Canada dithers, El Salvador wagers on Bitcoin
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced that the country’s congress had just approved a law classifying Bitcoin as legal tender. Of course, the cynics rolled their eyes, and they’ll continue to do so.
Steven Globerman: Aging population signals tough choices on the horizon
If no substantive changes are made to Canada’s OAS and GIS programs, the chief actuary projects that total combined spending on the two programs will increase by 400 percent between 2020 and 2060.
Trevor Tombe: Rejecting equalization spurns a crucial principle of Confederation
Given the importance of this policy, and the tensions around it, Canadians should be aware of the program’s basic principle and what a vote to abandon it really means.
Samuel Duncan: Families should be the focus of post-COVID growth
It will be crucial in a post-pandemic world to think of economic policy not exclusively through the lens of the individual, but also through the most important social and economic institution that we have: the family.
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.
Caroline Elliott: Identity politics are unhelpful in the fight against injustice
The growth of identity politics in mainstream discourse threatens to replace the cohesive power of commonality with a politics of resentment. This only deepens our divides, undercutting progress from a time when diversity wasn’t valued and otherness was a sure path to exclusion.
