Who was Barbara Mitchell?

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The Fraser Institute's fourteenth annual waiting list survey found that Canada-wide waiting times for surgical and other therapeutic treatments changed very little in 2004. Total waiting time between referral from a general practitioner and treatment, averaged across all 12 specialties and 10 provinces surveyed, rose from 17.7 weeks in 2003 to 17.9 weeks in 2004.

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We are living longer than ever before. We are healthier than every preceding generation. Each passing year yields powerful new therapies and wonder drugs. And each passing year brings a new low in public satisfaction with health care in both the United States and Canada.

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In January 2004, Children First: School Choice Trust conducted a survey of the program's tuition assistance grant recipient families. The parents who responded to the survey reported on several topics; income, ethnicity, academic quality of school, student improvement, student happiness, criteria for choosing a school, financial need.

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Property taxes are an extremely important tax for the kind of local government structure we have in British Columbia. They finance local services by municipalities and regional districts and schools by the provincial government. Most of the services that property taxes finance are for the area where the taxes are raised.

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Ontario spends almost $32 billion on public sector health programs, up 60 percent in nominal terms over the past decade. And this amount, equal to 6.4 percent of the provincial economy, is set to rise even further under the McGuinty government's four-year plan. Health spending has been and remains the pre-eminent fiscal issue for the provincial government.

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Senate reform in neither a necessary nor a sufficient answer to problems of governance. Many of the alleged failures of our political system for which Senate reform is claimed as a cure are in fact failures of the House of Commons or built-in features of the Westminster system.

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Measuring the Flexibility of Labour Relations Laws in Canada and the United States evaluates the extent to which the rules established by labour relations legislation bring flexibility to the labour market while balancing the needs of both employers and employees. Balanced labour laws are crucial in providing an environment that encourages productive economic activity.

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