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The Housing Crisis (Canada)
Canada has the physical space, the timber, the labour force, and the capital to house its people, and it has failed to do so. Between the late 1990s and the...
Poverty
Poverty is the condition of lacking the material resources a society treats as a minimum for decent life, but conservatives have long argued that how poverty is measured, explained, and...
Hierarchy
In conservative political thought, hierarchy refers to a structured ordering of social functions, authority, and obligation that arises from the natural differences of human capacity, vocation, and circumstance. The conservative...
Traditionalist Conservatism
Traditionalist conservatism is a strand of conservative political thought that grounds political legitimacy in inherited cultural, religious, and institutional traditions rather than in abstract first principles. The position holds that...
Neoconservatism
Neoconservatism is an American intellectual and political movement, originating in the late 1960s among former liberal and (in some cases) Trotskyist intellectuals, that combined three commitments: a defence of liberal-democratic...
Virtue Ethics
Virtue ethics is a family of moral theories that takes the central question of ethics to be not "what should I do?" but "what kind of person should I become?"...
Distributism
Economic doctrine developed by Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton in early-twentieth-century Britain, drawing on Catholic social teaching.Holds that productive property — land, tools, capital — should be widely distributed...
Economic Inequality
Economic inequality is the unequal distribution of income and wealth among individuals or groups within a society. It can appear in different forms, including income inequality, which is the disparities...
Corporate Subsidies
President Joe Biden signs the landmark bill in the State Dining Room of the White House. Corporate subsidies (subsidies) are financial incentives or support provided by governments to specific industries,...
International Trade
International trade is the exchange of goods, services, and capital across national borders. Dating back centuries, trade has been a driving force in the global economy, fostering economic alliances between...
Hyperinflation
The hyperinflation Germany experienced in the 1920s could be traced back to its loss in World War I. Hyperinflation is the extreme and rapid increase in the general price levels...
Government Spending
Speaker Mike Johnson says the new deal does not cut as much spending as many Republicans would like. Government spending is the allocation of public funds by a government to...
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The Housing Crisis (Canada)
Canada has the physical space, the timber, the labour force, and the capital to house its people, and it has failed to do so. Between the late 1990s and the 2020s, home prices in Vancouver, Toronto, and their surrounding regions rose far beyond local incomes, pushing ownership out of reach for a generation that did everything the country asked of it. Conservatives read this as a failure of government, not of markets: three decades of restricted land supply, permitting delays, levies loaded onto new construction, and a population target set without any matching plan to build.1 The crisis is a...
Poverty
Poverty is the condition of lacking the material resources a society treats as a minimum for decent life, but conservatives have long argued that how poverty is measured, explained, and addressed matters as much as the bare fact of deprivation. The central conservative claim is that durable escape from poverty depends less on the volume of public transfers than on work, family stability, and the habits that sustain both. From this premise flows a long-running argument with the architects of the modern welfare state. That argument is not a denial that poverty exists or that the poor deserve help. It...
Hierarchy
In conservative political thought, hierarchy refers to a structured ordering of social functions, authority, and obligation that arises from the natural differences of human capacity, vocation, and circumstance. The conservative defence of hierarchy is not a defence of any particular hierarchy at any particular moment, and is sharply distinguished from defences of caste, racial ordering, or self-interested oligarchy. The position is that some structured ordering is unavoidable in any cooperative human community, that pretending otherwise produces concealed and less accountable orderings, and that the visible inherited orderings of a free society are usually preferable on prudential grounds to the alternatives...
Traditionalist Conservatism
Traditionalist conservatism is a strand of conservative political thought that grounds political legitimacy in inherited cultural, religious, and institutional traditions rather than in abstract first principles. The position holds that political and social arrangements are best understood as the accumulated product of long communal trial and error, that this accumulated wisdom is not fully accessible to any single generation's deliberation, and that proposals for fundamental redesign should accordingly bear a heavy burden of proof. The position is distinct from reactionary politics (which seeks to restore some particular previous arrangement) and from cultural pessimism (which treats decline as inevitable). The traditionalist...