Why do I suggest we need Alberta Police, Alberta Pension, Alberta tax collection, Alberta immigration and Alberta health care management?
“Fight at the outposts, and the citadel will be secure.”
Protect the Citadel
A North American Cold War With a Rush’n Ottawa
A North American Cold War With a Rush’n Ottawa During the Cold War, everyone agreed that a nuclear exchange between Russia and the US was not a good outcome. Russia and the US developed tripwires that came between a conflict…
A continuation of Politics
War is a continuation of politics by other means. Clausewitz The threat of war will keep parties talking and coming to a mutually satisfactory landing. War is not the desired outcome, merely a possible outcome. Separation of Alberta from the…
Fixing the marriage
Jason Kenney and Preston Manning both want to take the possibility of separation from the rest of Canada off the Alberta conversation table.
Approval seeking
The sad state of public policy thinking is on display in
Alberta.
The craving of our public figures to be seen taking advice
from a 16-year-old girl is astounding and distressing.
Blue Ribbon Commission
A Government Commission I would like to see.
The Alberta government has, in the past, created blue-ribbon commissions to review oil and gas royalties.
Why not convene a blue-ribbon commission review of Civil Service payment and benefit rates?
Absenteeism
The Federal Government did not send lawyers to defend the Trans Mountain Pipeline at a recent Federal Court hearing. I suppose there are number of possible explanations.
Great change
Can we turn the clock back on government intervention? Will the pendulum reverse direction and
recover to a mean?
I am beginning to fear not. There are more government takers than providers. The political
pendulum is weighted in the wrong direction with no apparent change of momentum
or direction reversal in the foreseeable future.
An open letter to Alberta voters
This letter is to anyone thinking of voting for Greg Clark in the next election.
I was dismayed to find out from a very good friend, that he was going to vote for Greg Clark.
Capital and Talent Flee Bad Policies
Alberta thrived for decades because of an abundance of low-cost capital and human talent. It was an attractive place to live and invest. Not because of the climate, and not because of the mountains. Because it was flanked on both…