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Conrad Black

Publishing · On our record since 2005

Where this writer stands

Energy21 pieces

Restrict new oil and gasExpand production and export
“With reasonable care for the environment, we must exploit and export to the world our natural resources, and outgrow neurotic fixations on fictional climate horror stories.” Read the piece

Climate21 pieces

Faster fossil phase-downSlower phase-down, production first
“This horribly mistaken policy in much of the western world has caused $16 trillion to be spent combatting climate change without saving a single life and in a period when the world's temperature has not moved much in 30 years.” Read the piece

Defence20 pieces

Restrain spending and deploymentsHigher spending and more capability
“The prime minister has commendably pledged to raise our game in national defence.” Read the piece

Foreign affairs18 pieces

Alliance restraintAssertive alliances and sanctions
“The U.S. will also guarantee passage of shipping through the strait and any Iranian attack on that traffic will be responded to at once with a high multiple of applied force, probably including the destruction of at least one power plant on each such infraction.” Read the piece

Fiscal policy18 pieces

Higher taxes and public spendingLower taxes and tighter spending
“In order to reverse our decade-long cash drain we have to lower corporate income taxes beneath the American level again (as the Stephen Harper government did).” Read the piece

Trade13 pieces

Diversify away from one partnerDeeper continental integration
“Canada's trade strategy has to begin with the fact that our most valuable strategic asset is our preferential access to the U.S. market.” Read the piece

Immigration6 pieces

Higher permanent intakeLower intake
“nearly stopped the free flow of migrants with no particular attachment to the United States flooding into it (including large numbers of violent criminals)” Read the piece

Federalism5 pieces

Ottawa leadsProvinces lead
“the heavy-handed use of federal fiscal influence on the provinces to strengthen the quality of education, incentivize investment in this country, make Canada a single market” Read the piece

Public safety5 pieces

Prevention and restraintEnforcement and sentencing
“But this era of giving increased weight to the evidence of complainants, especially retroactively, has many hazards.” Read the piece

Health3 pieces

Expand public coverageMore private delivery
“accept private medicine and assure an increase in the number of doctors” Read the piece

Agriculture3 pieces

Defend supply managementLiberalize supply management
“scrapped the exorbitant supply management system so much favoured by Quebec and replaced it with direct income supplements to designated farmers, reducing food prices” Read the piece

Labour1 piece

Stronger unions and standardsMore flexibility for employers
“broken the stranglehold of the teachers' unions which had transformed American schools into disorderly daycare centres” Read the piece

Financial regulation1 piece

Tighter prudential rulesLighter capital rules and more competition
“There is a feeble effort to incite greater competition in the telecom and banking cartels but these are tokens.” Read the piece

Housing1 piece

Public supply and demand controlsMarket supply and deregulation
“Last year, Pierre Poilievre, running on a platform of lower taxes, greater decentralization, reduced federal spending, pulling our weight in defence, assisting seriously in crime reduction, facilitation of increased housing construction and more careful immigration, and unambiguous support of beleaguered minorities and especially the Jews, carried the younger section of voters between 18 and 35, and gained 18 MPs in Ontario.” Read the piece

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