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Tax and Fiscal Policy

Frank de Jong, Former Green Party Leader – November 30, 2011
Frontier interviews former Ontario Green Party Leader Frank de Jong on land value taxation and other topics.
Untax Buildings, Uptax Land – November 28, 2011
PowerPoint slides which accompanied former Green Party Leader of Ontario, Speaker, Writer Frank de Jong's speech Untax Buildings, Uptax Land that he gave in Calgary, Regina and Winnipeg late November 2011.
Transforming Manitoba – January 16, 2010
Manitoba’s old style public sector model has placed the province firmly outside of western Canada's mainstream.
George Gilder - Audio Interview Clips – September 12, 2008
George Gilder, Futurist and Author, was interviewed at the Atlas Experience, a conference run by the Atlas Economic Research Foundation at Niagara on the Lake on July 18th 2008.
Taxes or User Charges? – February 15, 2008
Like all governments, municipalities have the option of using a number of revenue-raising tools that have different characteristics. We examine, in this Charticle, the use of property taxes versus user charges for the funding of municipal services in 30 Canadian cities.
Municipal Tax and Municipal Tax Reliance – February 15, 2008
Frontier's Local Government Frontiers Project collected various financial data from Canada's 30th largest cities in 2007. This Charticle presents the levels of taxation imposed collected divided by the number of households counted in each jurisdiction.
Poverty Policies Tend to Impoverish – September 12, 2007
The poor suffer the most collateral damage when policy is designed for the few, not the many.
Cheap Rent is Not a Public Right – May 23, 2007
Why should the government force private property owners to subsidize tenants?
Property Rights, Tax Reform Laws Coming, China Says – March 6, 2007
China’s legislature said it will enact laws to protect private property and close a tax gap between local and foreign companies, possibly encouraging overseas funds to invest in the world’s fourth-largest economy.


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Upcoming FCPP Appearances

Visionary Conversations: Our Education System: The Good, the Bad, and the Solutions
Speaker: Rodney Clifton, Senior Fellow for Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Date: May 22, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Robert B Schultz Theatre, St. John's College, University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus

Community Policy Forum
Speaker: Steve Lafleur, FCPP Policy Analyst
Date: May 28, 2013
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Place: Grant Park McNally Robinson, Winnipeg, Mb


Tue May 21, 2013

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