Brad Wall’s government has a resounding mandate to stamp its mark on Saskatchewan. But majorities come and go and history remembers legislation better than the people who passed it. Failing to reform the Calvert government’s Planning and Development Act (2007) could become an accidental and pernicious legacy of this government. The act defines how municipalities define […] Read more
Stories by David Seymour
Marketing freedom start of good ag policy
Following is an excerpt from a new book by David Seymour of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, titled Birth of a Boom: Saskatchewan’s Dawning Golden Age. Author’s note: The federal government’s decision to offer marketing freedom to farmers should be welcomed, as I wrote in my book, which was published months before the decision […] Read more
Wall should use his advantage
David Seymour of the Prairie Centre for Public Policy has advice for Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall now that he is riding a wave of popularity. With the BHP Billiton takeover attempt of Potash Corp. killed by the federal government, premier Brad Wall, who almost single-handedly drove the decision, finds himself at a fork in his […] Read more
World thirsty for water rights – Opinion
Seymour is a senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. Experts who gathered this spring in Istanbul for the World Water Forum were trying to work out solutions for the billion people who struggle every day just to find clean water to drink. Simply getting fresh water to drink and cook with […] Read more
Environmental trends misguided – Opinion
Seymour is a director and senior policy analyst with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This comment originally appeared on the centre’s website at www. fcpp.org. Three movements that have made the news lately – the stop-selling-bottled-water movement, the switch-the-lights-off-for-an-hour movement and the choose-locally-produced-food movement – reveal several misguided trends in modern environmentalism. The trends […] Read more
