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Want Trans Mountain Expanded at Any Price?

Be careful what you wish for, because taxpayers will be eating the expanding costs of TMX.

By Robyn Allan

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Don’t Want TMX Built? Be careful what you wish for…

  “Without a new pipeline, with new technology, what will you be left with?”

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Were Farmers the First Property Rights Revolutionaries?

New research reveals a surprising relationship between farmers and the invention of property rights.

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A Solution to Pipeline Industry Paralysis

Bullying and legal land theft are not the answer—respecting property rights is

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If the state wants your property, it can take your property.

Expropriation Unlimited

Unrestrained expropriation is a serious public policy failure—and yet, one that’s widely ignored.

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Expropriation Unlimited

Pipeline companies are not the worst offenders when it comes to legal land theft in Canada

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UNDRIP says First Nations can say no to development. But we also need to be able to say yes

Most landowners...

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The Knowledge Problem

Why government pipeline and energy corridor schemes are destined to fail

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TMX and the Constitutional Mutiny

Once upon a time, it took just 20 months to get a pipeline built in Canada

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How Federal Regulations Pre-Empt Real Property Rights

A Montana case is no surprise to Canadians who are familiar with how regulatory regimes protect industry from landowners