First Nations community members deserve financial transparency from their leaders
New data confirm what policy observers predicted—removing enforcement teeth from First Nations financial transparency requirements has caused compliance rates to plummet. This isn’t just a bureaucratic concern. It’s a story about broken promises to members in indigenous communities who want accountable governance. The 2013 First Nations Financial Transparency Act represented a straightforward proposition. The Harper […]
From equal opportunity to quotas: An index of DEI in hiring and ideological capture in Canadian corporations
Executive Summary Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI or EDI) is ubiquitous in hiring lingo but rarely put into practice in corporate Canada. This study highlights what we will term the “DEI Paradox”—Canada’s largest corporations laud DEI, while preserving merit-based hiring in practice. In other words, top firms promote DEI—very extensively—but it is almost entirely performative. […]
Canada was NOT stolen
Federal funding to BC’s indigenous peoples over 23 years: $27.2 billion including non-treaty First Nations
Introduction BC’s First Nations have certainly been in the news recently: The BC Supreme Court’s 2025 Cowichan Tribes decision undermined private property rights, and the implementation of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) undermined democratic accountability in the province. These cases are straining reconciliation efforts. Yet, despite these tensions, Canadians by and large wish to see indigenous Canadians prosper and […]
