This week, Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm complained that it was high time his province got its fair share of revenue from its energy resources — just like Alberta. He went on to argue that Nova Scotia should get its…

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…