CRTC mandate needs an update, Sean Speer tells CBC
It’s been nearly 50 years since the CRTC, Canada’s telecommunications and broadcast regulator, received an updated mandate from elected officials. ...
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CRTC, Can Con policy are overdue for an overhaul: MLI paper by Sean Speer and Len Katz
Commission which held its first meeting when Pierre Trudeau became prime minister hasn’t kept up with fast-changing and dynamic broadcasting ...
Less funding, fewer strings should be Ottawa’s spur for the provinces on health care reform: Sean Speer for Inside Policy
The provinces' preoccupation with the size of federal cheques during the prelude to this week's health ministers meeting reveals a ...
Provinces need fewer restrictions, not more money, for health care reform: Sean Speer and Brian Lee Crowley in the National Post
The path to better health care runs through allowing more experimentation for the provinces. Sean Speer and Brian Lee Crowley, writing ...
Foreign investors causing “us to take our eye off the ball” on ballooning house prices, Sean Speer tells BNN
The rhetoric about foreign investors has glossed over a much greater contributor to skyrocketing house prices in Canada: the shrinking ...
Sean Speer available to comment on why closing foreign buyer loophole fails to address Canada’s housing price problem
Ottawa is expected to announce today that it will be closing a loophole on foreign buyers in an attempt to ...
Ottawa needs a history lesson on the benefits of federalism: Sean Speer for the Huffington Post
Ottawa is centralizing too much power when it should be allowing provinces the freedom to innovate using the power of ...
Little to cheer in premiers’ internal trade pact: Sean Speer in Prairie Manufacturer Magazine
Look beneath the fine print in the provinces’ self-congratulatory internal trade agreement and you’ll find Canada has made little progress ...
Shrinking land supply is pushing housing prices out of reach: Sean Speer and Brian Lee Crowley in the Report on Business
Government land supply policies -- and not foreign investors -- are to blame for house prices in Canada spiraling out ...
Mandating drug access will only make it more difficult to help the world’s poor: Sean Speer and Richard Owens in the Financial Post
The UN is wrong to think loosening intellectual property regulations will make drugs cheaper for the developing world, write Sean ...
Poor government policy, not foreign investors, exacerbating Canada’s house price crisis: MLI report by Sean Speer and Brian Lee Crowley
Government regulations are choking off land supply, making housing an unaffordable dream for many Canadians OTTAWA, Sept. 29, 2016 – ...
Momentum building for health care reform: Sean Speer in the Montreal Gazette
MLI Munk Senior Fellow Sean Speer, writing in the Montreal Gazette, argues that we cannot maintain the status quo on ...
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Mexican cartels are a direct threat to Canada’s public safety, and the future of North American trade: Gary J. Hale for Inside Policy
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Canadians are very unhappy with the federal public service—and for good reason: Tim Sargent in The Hub
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Unfortunately for Canadian consumers and creators, the Online Streaming Act is performing exactly as predicted: Peter Menzies in the Hub
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Will Justin Trudeau prorogue Parliament in the new year? History shows there’s little political cost to the practice: Dave Snow in The Hub
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Canada is an energy superpower. It’s time to remind America and act like it: Heather Exner-Pirot in The Hub
