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  • February 2004: The Vanishing Country (Part III of III)

    After years of kowtowing, our influence with the U.S. is still zilch, Canada is too good a country to let our Americanizers destroy it U.S. President George W. Bush and the U.S. ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci, were “disappointed” that Canada didn’t join in the American-led invasion of Iraq. Their…

  • Unsafe Practices

    Restructuring and Privatization in Ontario Health Care Download 58.88 KB175 pages Public health care, the crown jewel of social programs, has worked extremely well for Canadians. Yet Ontario today is witnessing piecemail privatization in health care: the introduction of private-sector business strategies and management ideologies into the public health care…

  • December 2003: LIberal or Neoliberal?

    What can we expect from P.M. Martin? Read his budget speeches Paul Martin began his budget speech on February 27, 1995, with the following words: “Mr. Speaker, there are times in the progress of a people when fundamental challenges must be faced, fundamental choices made, a new course charted. For…

  • November 2003: The Vanishing Country (Part I of III)

    It’s not too late to preserve Canada as an independent country The subtitle of my book The Vanishing Country, published a year ago by McLelland & Stewart, is Is it too late to save Canada? I personally don’t think it’s too late, but even some great Canadian nationalists such as…

  • Labour Matters

    Work Life: Supreme Court Rulings on Labour Legislation

    An Affirmation of Workers’ Constitutional Rights The January 30, 2015 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada was a very significant one for the labour movement, and in fact for Canadian society. In their decision the Court once more reaffirmed that a strong base of fundamental rights for union members…

  • Martin sits on surplus while Canada crumbles

    Scandal camouflage for inaction OTTAWA–The Martin government is hiding behind the sponsorship scandal as a pretext for inaction in Budget 2004, charges the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The Prime Minister says it’s time for transformative change but his pre-election budget delivers more of what the federal Liberals always do:…

  • Who gets paid more?

    The Fraser Institute is really concerned that public sector employees might be making more than private sector employees. What is notable about the recent Fraser Institute report on public and private sector wages in British Columbia is that it does not seem particularly concerned with the reasons why there are variations in…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    Fish farms no cure for BC’s economic ills

    There is a mistaken perception among many British Columbians that BC’s wild fish stocks are dying and that we need salmon aquaculture to replace the jobs and economic benefits they provide. With all the attention being paid to fish farms lately, some may even think that BC’s salmon farming industry…

  • December 2003: The Vanishing Country (Part II of III)

    Personal incomes rise much more slowly in free trade years The noted Canadian economist Pierre Fortin tells us that, “during the 1990s, Canada’s aggregate economic performance has been the worst since the great depression, and very nearly the worst among all industrial countries.” For those of you who might think…

  • December 2003: The Alternative Federal Budget

    AFB shows how a better budget would lead to a better world CCPA staff, research associates, economists and NGO activists are busily at work drafting our Alternative Federal Budget (AFB) for 2004. It will be unveiled shortly before federal Finance Minister John Manley tables his official budget in February. The…

  • BC’s social contract is being dismantled in revolutionary ways

    With some recent privatization reversals, a number of business leaders and free market fundamentalists are concerned that the BC Liberals are backing away from the Campbell revolution. The government, in their opinion, needs to get back with the program — more tax cuts, deeper and faster spending cuts, privatize Crown…

  • Resource Economics Project (BC)

    BC’s incredible shrinking Environment Minister

    Joyce Murray — BC’s Minister of the “Environment” (formally Water, Land and Air Protection) — does not seem to wield a whole lot of power in the BC cabinet room. And her presence in Victoria appears to be shrinking day-by-day. Just recently, Ms. Murray was seen standing in the legislature…