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  1. Senate expense scandals just one small example of government's failure to manage our money

    Appeared in the National Post Allegations of expense scandals in the Senate have shocked many Canadians and rightfully so. Although unsettling, such antics are not an isolated case; they are part of a larger institutional problem with government. A ...

  2. Government can't fix everything

    Appeared in the Huffington Post and Vancouver Province “The government should fix it” is a common refrain when people encounter a problem in society. Governments happily oblige because it means more votes for politicians and more work for bureaucrats. ...

  3. Federal Government Failure in Canada, 2013 Edition: A review of the Auditor General's reports, 1988-2013

    The discussion of the limitations of government and subsequent government failure is wholly absent from debate in Canada where, unfortunately, we still assume that governments act benevolently and without institutional constraints. That this is not true ...

  4. Government Failure in Canada, 2007 Report: A Review of the Auditor General's Reports, 1992-2006

    This publication was written to inform Canadians about the theories and insights of Public Choice Theory, to document government failure from the reports of the Auditor General, to calculate a reasonable estimate of the costs of government failure, and to ...

  5. Government Failure in Canada, 2005 Report: A Review of the Auditor General's Reports, 1992-2005

    This publication has been written to inform Canadians about the theories and insights of Public Choice Theory, to document government failure from the reports of the Auditor General, and, perhaps most importantly, to describe the mechanisms available to ...

  6. Government Failure in Canada, 1997-2004: A Survey of Reports from the Auditor General

    This publication has been written to inform Canadians about the theories and insights of Public Choice Theory, to document government failure from the reports of the Auditor General, and, perhaps most importantly, to describe the mechanisms available to ...