Frontier Centre for Public Policy
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) is an independent Canadian public policy think tank. Founded in Winnipeg in 1997, the Frontier Centre received charitable status in 1999 and currently has offices in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Our research aims to analyze current affairs and public policies and develop effective and meaningful ideas for good governance and reform. We provide a platform for public debate and engage with the public through our numerous publications and events.
Most Recent Articles by Frontier Centre for Public Policy:
DEI needs to Die
May 20, 2024
The policy of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (so-called DEI) holds that marginalized or previously discriminated groups should have preference in hiring, training, and promotion to higher managerial levels in workplaces
“Autochthonous” – get used to it or prepare to be denounced
The Kamloops Guilt Trip Three Years On
May 11, 2024
TRC — that was ultimately responsible for this national tragedy. The commissioners bought into Kevin Annett’s conspiracy theory. All Canadians — but particularly indigenous Canadians — will pay the price for generations
Private companies and Indigenous communities need to abandon ESG altogether as it warehouses First Nation into perpetual poverty. Indigenous communities need more energy projects, not less.
Is The DEEP STATE Really Awesome?
May 11, 2024
The deep state is not awesome. It is the enemy of freedom and human rights and the biggest threat to progress that we face.
Canada Finding Out What Reconciliation Really Means
May 11, 2024
Past citizens of Canada should not be remembered for their unremarkable qualities or their flaws typical of all humanity. Instead they should be honoured for their remarkable qualities and their extraordinary achievements.
It all seems senseless to harm Canada’s growth prospects. We already have a hard time encouraging investment that could turn stagnation into solid growth and prosperity.
This country through its so called legal system has ignored the Charter of Rights and Freedoms opening words —‘Whereas Canada is founded on principles that recognize the Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law ‘
Invest In Roads, Not Transit
April 20, 2024
This “30-minute work access” data is a wakeup call to the many policy makers who remain fixated on anti-car policies that don’t work
ESG and the New Eco-Colonialism – Choosing Indigenous Equity Ownership over ‘Stakeholder Capitalism’
The Smallwood Solution
April 20, 2024
Joey Smallwood told the Newfoundland fishermen, who had lived in their outports for generations, that they must move for their own good, there was much pain. But the communities could no longer support themselves, and it had to be done
How ‘Green’ Projects Are Looting The Treasury
April 12, 2024
Climate policy breaks everything. It breaks communities, it encourages widespread theft of public money, it starves productive work and manufacturing, it has punched down on the less advantaged, and it is destroying the fabric of our lives. And for w
Canada remains poorly positioned to capitalize on another historic opportunity–the European thirst for oil as it tries to distance itself from Russia
The 15-Minute City: An extraordinary Bad Idea
April 8, 2024
People who care about the planet should demand policies that actually work and not ones that are based on urban planning fantasies and fads.
Safe Supply Opioids Based More On Ideology Than Evidence
April 8, 2024
Drug policies such as safe supply have long bypassed appropriate scientific scrutiny because they supposedly save lives. But the question still remains – do they? And at what cost to addicts and the rest of society?
Canada’s Eco-Extremism Threat Is Flying Under The Radar
April 7, 2024
The dangerous rise in eco-extremism in Canada is fueled by identity politics and exaggerated climate anxieties
Post-nationalist politicians such as President Obama and Mr. Trudeau found it easy to sell woke elites the same unfounded assumptions they had already acquired in university
eco-extremism in Canada is particularly directed at oil and natural gas pipelines and is often led by anarchists under the guise of “anarcho-Indigenism.”
Wokeism versus the classical liberal truth-based order is what the discussion on the Online Harms Bill, C-63, is really about. Although some see it as a plot to undermine free […]
A national Pharmacare deal has been reached and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is proclaiming it to be a huge win for his party. But amidst the Gatorade celebrations and public
FLAT COPPER, EV GLUT, IMPLODING WIND POWER, EQUAL GREEN CRASH
December 9, 2023
Large fissures are appearing in the ‘Green Transition’ story climate crusaders tell themselves. They are trying to foist it on a reluctant public and skeptical business world
Canada should have built these projects years ago. We’d be securing markets and cashing in today. No business case, indeed.
CANADA’S PROPERTY RIGHTS SLIPPING BEHIND GLOBAL COMPETITORS
November 19, 2023
Property rights protections deliver prosperity and good jobs for all Canadians
REGINA – What’s good for the Atlantic goose is good for the Saskatchewan gander, when it comes to carbon tax for home heating. And if they’re not paying the carbon
WHO NOW STILL BELIEVES IN OUR UNIVERSITIES?
November 5, 2023
If you wonder why university students celebrate the barbaric atrocities of Hamas, the lies of postcolonial theory and critical race theory explain a good part
HELE COAL STILL HAS A VALUABLE PLACE IN THE ENERGY MIX
October 31, 2023
High Efficiency Low Emission coal technology
Shooting The Messenger With Blanks
October 30, 2023
Sinclair’s argument is one of both omission and indignation. Given the inconsistencies in his missing children narrative it is no wonder that an increasing number of people have doubts about what they are being told