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:

Why We Should Be Skeptical of the Hydrogen Economy: Hydrogen or Synthetic Fossil Fuels

Long before he became Manitoba’s premier, Wab Kinew was a refreshing, common sense voice, and always refused to play the victim. He never failed to remind young indigenous people that Canada worked just fine for him

Canada has a hard time attracting investors. Now, our trading partners are leaving us in the dust.

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The Care Home Dilemma June 19, 2024
Time to move beyond the indifference we have shown towards care home residents--integrate them more fully into the broader Canadian society. Surely, the last few years of their lives should be spent with dignity and comfort in a supportive community

They are monetizing all public and private land to pay or support the national debt. We will be a resource to be played, monetized, surveilled and restricted for the profits of the market

The messaging should be that humanity requires oil and gas and will for decades, and that role of industry is to do this as cleanly and efficiently as possible

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Letter from Europe June 19, 2024
No more can the elites merely mouth cliches about climate change and disinformation and expect people just to go along. We have a very long way to go in these efforts but what we are seeing thus far is extremely encouraging.

The English-speaking world has a mixed record when it comes to political assassinations

There needs to be more of this by people in their roles across all parties, regardless of the issue at hand. Only then will we have public servants doing exactly that; serving the public and the public interest

A public inquiry is the only way to clear the air, and get the country back on track.

Until First Nations abandon reserves, urban reserves certainly help First Nations develop economically. However, urban reserves should open a wider conversation about moving away from reserves

We need to reflect and admire the skill, diligence, and perseverance of everyone involved with bringing to fruition TMX as a world class, state of the art major piece of energy infrastructure

Leaders on the Frontier: Online Harms Bill-- Bill C-63

The Great Reset, the Green New Deal, corporatist planning and pharma, medical monopolies, global government control, the forced financialization of so many Western economies, the rise of statism in the form of pandemic and energy planning

So while there are malevolent outside actors doing what they can with universities, the influential corruption is internal. If you block the outsiders, nothing will change. The universities are the source of the radicalism

It’s time for school board chairs, superintendents, and principals to spend more time talking to the public themselves

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The End Of Nuance June 1, 2024
The process is the punishment: My crime was in saying that most students who died while enrolled in these schools from 1883-1996 did so from disease, especially tuberculosis

Canadian elites are inexplicably unwilling to grant to others the same Charter of Rights-free speech presumptions that they keep for themselves when they support “anti-Zionists” shouting obnoxious statements and insults.

It is time to get back to sanity. Treat those who claim--with no real evidence--that priests murdered, secretly buried children--exactly the same way that we treat those who claim that the Martians have landed and have abducted their mothers

The intellectual parlor game is over. This is a real-life struggle for freedom itself. It’s resist and rebuild or doom

By 1945, Canada possessed one of the largest navies on the planet

Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth about Residential Schools)

A Church that did much to deliver a better way of life to many Indigenous children. Unfortunately, the same Church can no longer defend itself, fearing that this would label it as composed of callous, unrepentant Indian Residential School denialists

Authors also critique the Catholic Church’s response to the allegations, arguing that it overlooks the positive contributions of missionaries. Rubenstein and Clifton call for a balanced, evidence-based approach to discussions on Residential Schools

No remains have been recovered at the Kamloops site to date. A Senate committee in a 2023 report described questions regarding documentation of the 215 graves as “Residential School denialism.”

Dr. Tom Flanagan: Where's the proof?

To gain full control of the internet as a means of managing the public mind, however, is going to take far more than consolidation and surreptitious infiltration

This does not end with Israel, Palestine, and the Jews. America, Canada, the West, capitalism, democracy, and individual freedom are all in the crosshairs of Marxism and Islamic supremacism

If Canada were a human being, a doctor would find its health in decline. The nation is eating too much (heavy taxation, deficit spending, uncontrolled immigration), not physically active enough (slumping private sector job growth, investment

From Scotland to New Zealand to Canada, politicians are on a collision course with the public