Albertans are getting a raw deal from Ottawa and Premier Ralph Klein needs to construct a “firewall” to protect against current and future raids on our treasury. This was the key suggestion that we, along with a number of other…

January 24, 2001  Hon. Ralph Klein  Premier of Alberta  Dear Premier Klein:  Re: The “Alberta Agenda”  During and since the recent federal election, we have been among a large number of Albertans discussing the future of our province. We were…

When the Citizen asked me to write on the reported latest Liberal fancy — a guaranteed annual income program — I asked whether it wanted (a) a political rebuttal (b) a constitutional rebuttal (c) a purely economic rebuttal (d) a…

Losing the federal election to the Chretien Liberals may, as Lady Churchill said to her husband following electoral defeat in 1945, “be a blessing in disguise” for the Canadian Alliance. For the prospects facing a third-term Chretien government hold the…

In 1997, the provinces and Ottawa reached two important agreements, one about benefits directed toward children and the second about the provinces’ flexibility in designing their own tax systems. Together these agreements give the Atlantic provinces a historic opportunity to…