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May 2026
Indigenous Policy

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.

Anonymous March 2026 7 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  ·  May 2026  ·  5 min read
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Economic Reform

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.

Anonymous  ·  April 2026  ·  6 min read
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Geopolitics

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.

Anonymous  ·  February 2026  ·  8 min read
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