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Drilling holes in forestry rhetoric
(April 4, 2000) It’s not free trade our lumber companies want, it’s free trees. The rugged individualists attending the Canadian Lumbermen’s Association convention in Montreal earlier this year must have welled up with pride. Continue reading
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Eco-extremists aren’t extremist enough
(March 21, 2000) The eco-extremists are poised to win their biggest battle yet over British Columbia’s vast forest lands. But the eco-extremists aren’t environmental groups. The extremists are the B.C. government and major forestry companies who are hell-bent on destroying the splendour of the province’s landscape, even if they must do so at a loss. Continue reading
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The real enemy of free markets
(March 7, 2000) Now that communism has fallen, free market advocates should train their guns on the most powerful remaining impediment to the free enterprise system. Not environmentalists. Not nationalists. Not even labour unions. The chief threat to free enterprise comes from big business. Continue reading
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Help support the mining lottery
(February 22, 2000) Rogue industry seeks more public largesse as investors choose newer games of chance. Much of the worldwide mining industry is in financial difficulty, with many of its members scratching out a living and staring bankruptcy in the face. “A lot of drilling companies are facing Chapter 11,” warns the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. Nothing much new here. Continue reading
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Insurance deregulation and the public interest
(February 18, 2000) Remarks prepared for a seminar on this topic sponsored jointly by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution. Continue reading
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Urban Renaissance Institute 