Ottawa Blames the Provinces. The Provinces Blame Ottawa. You Sit in the Waiting Room.
Canada's service failures are not a mystery. They are the predictable outcome of a federal structure that has evolved into a system where no single government is ever clearly responsible for results.
Read →Canadians Don't Have a Tax Problem. They Have a Spending Problem.
Canadians are paying first-world taxes for increasingly second-rate public services. The money is coming in. The services are not being delivered. The question that deserves a serious answer is where the gap went.
Why Canada's Marginal Tax Rates Are Killing Ambition
Getting promoted should feel like a win. In Ontario, past a certain income level, it barely registers in your take-home pay while your workload doubles. That math has consequences the political class refuses to name.
Canada's Indigenous Land Claim Backlog Is a National Competitiveness Crisis
Treating unresolved land claims as a cultural problem to manage has allowed Canada to ignore what it really is: a self-inflicted wound on national economic output that compounds every year nothing gets done.
The Capital Gains Treatment Killing Domestic Investment
Investors do not make decisions in a vacuum. When Canada moves one direction on capital gains taxation while the United States moves the other, the money follows. This is not a mystery. It is cause and effect.
Canada's Resource Wealth Is a Geopolitical Asset We Refuse to Use
While allied governments scrambled for energy alternatives in recent years, Canada watched from the sidelines with the third-largest proven oil reserves on earth and nowhere near the infrastructure to move them.