Ken Boessenkool

February 2nd 2001 - Archive - Calgary Herald

Some provinces are more equal than others

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 26th 2001 - Archive - National Post

Open letter to Ralph Klein

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…

December 15th 2000 - Archive - The Ottawa Citizen

Shots from both sides in the Liberal `war on poverty’: No: Canada can’t afford huge cost

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…

November 30th 2000 - Archive - The Ottawa Citizen

Even the losers get lucky sometimes: As Liberal ballots were counted, an Alliance insider was counting his own party’s blessings.

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…

November 27th 1998 - Archive - Calgary Herald

Per-child tax deduction would be fairer: The bias shown by the federal taxation system in favour of two-income families over single-income families means the government believes some children are worth more than others. Kenneth Boessenkool and James Davies argue that it’s time to return fairness to families.

Are some families’ kids worth more than others’ kids? An innocuous question with, for most of us, an obvious answer. Yet if he were asked it in the House of Commons, Finance Minister Paul Martin might sense a setup and…