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Immigration Policy

Canada Built an Entrance and Called It a System

Canada is removing people at the fastest pace in its history, and the numbers still do not come close to matching the policy. The arithmetic of departure reveals a state that scaled admissions without building the capacity to manage what came after.

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Housing Policy

Canada Taxes the One Thing It Says It Wants More Of

The largest controllable cost in a new Canadian home is a municipal levy almost no voter can name. Ottawa and Queen's Park are now paying municipalities to stop charging it. That is not a housing policy. It is a confession.

Anonymous  ·   ·  7 min read
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Federalism

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.

Anonymous  ·   ·  5 min read
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Fiscal Policy

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.

Anonymous  ·   ·  5 min read
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Tax Policy

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.

Anonymous  ·   ·  5 min read
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Indigenous Policy

Canada's Indigenous Land Claim Backlog Is a National Competitiveness Crisis

Unresolved land claims create legal uncertainty for everyone — including Indigenous communities themselves. The current system fails both development and rights.

Anonymous  ·   ·  7 min read
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Economic Reform

Canada's Capital Gains Problem Is Not the Rate

Ontario taxes a capital gain at 26.76 percent, less than California. The damage was never the rate. It was eleven months in which nobody could say what the rate would be.

Anonymous  ·   ·  8 min read
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Geopolitics

Canada Legislated a Fix for Its Permitting Problem. Now Comes the Test.

Parliament passed the Building Canada Act to answer a decade of complaints that Canada cannot build. Whether it works is now a measurable question.

Anonymous  ·   ·  8 min read
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