Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon rebates help fewer federal Conservative voters than non-Conservative voters. In particular, Trudeau is using carbon rebates to lure NDP and Green voters at the expense of Federal Conservative voters. Now that you’ve lost the Supreme…

Advocates of using a carbon tax to reduce GHG emissions sometimes refer to a double dividend from placing a price on carbon. The first dividend comes from appropriately pricing externalities through a carbon tax. The second dividend comes from using the…

The central argument of George Will’s book Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does1 is that governments by their very nature affect not only the external behaviour but also the “inner life” of citizens. To put it another way, government cannot…

The end of Alberta alienation may be at hand.  At its core, Alberta alienation has a provincial and a national component. Provincially, alienation is tied to the willingness and ability of the provincial government to assert Alberta’s interests. Nationally, alienation…

The release of a number of reports by the federal Romanow  Commission has exposed its two-pronged public relations strategy: First, deny that there is a problem. Second, tag the provinces (especially Alberta) as the bad guys in health-care reform.  This…