Frontier Centre for Public Policy
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The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is an independent, Winnipeg-based "think tank". The mission is to develop and popularize policy choices that will help Canada's prairie region live up to its vast but unrealized economic potential.
The Centre was founded by a group of individuals interested in making the prairie region a good place to live, work and prosper. The advisory board includes both experienced community leaders and academic specialists. Charitable status as a registered educational organization was granted by Revenue Canada in April 1999.
The Frontier Centre embraces the new economy of innovation and change. They conduct research and educational activities in three broad areas:
High-Performance Government - Creating high-productivity public services and institutions based on the principles of transparency, neutrality and separating elected officials from day-to-day operations; government as a purchaser, not provider of services.
Social Policy Renewal - consumer-sensitive health care and education systems; the post- welfare state; aboriginal policy based on empowerment, not dependency.
The Open Economy - achieving the optimum size of government; adjusting with globalization; the emerging technology-driven rural renaissance, creating the value-added agriculture economy.
