POLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Layton, thanks for doing this. By the time this interview is published in early October, we’re either going to be into an election or we’re still going to be here. What’s your …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Prentice, thanks for doing this. In our new Nanos Research poll for Policy Options, 62 percent of Canadians identified fresh water as the country's most important natural resource, by a margin of …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Flaherty, thanks for doing this. The opposition parties are pretty unanimous in saying they're not going to be supporting the budget, including the NDP. And we appear to heading into an election. …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Flaherty, thanks for doing this. JIM FLAHERTY: A pleasure. PO: First of all, on the budget, the deficit, you seem to have made a strong case for your argument that it's cyclical and not …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Baird, thank you for doing this. We're doing an issue here on foreign policy, Canadian foreign policy being kind of transformed or moving away from the honest broker tradition to more of …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Manley, thanks for doing this. JOHN MANLEY: My pleasure. PO: In the decade since you left public office, smart phones, social networks, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other forms of communications technology have changed our …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Well, Mr. Premier, as I still call you, thank you for doing this. PETER LOUGHEED: Delighted and honoured. PO: As you now know, you are the winner of our survey as part of the 40th …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Speaker, thanks for doing this. Our thematic for this month, fixing Parliament, assumes that it is to some extent broken. So what is your sense of it? SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE PETER MILLIKEN: …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Prime Minister, thank you for doing this. Congratulations. PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER: Thank you. PO: You've just come from the cabinet shuffle this morning where you had a very delicate balance of 73 Ontario MPs …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Flaherty, thank you for doing this. FINANCE MINISTER JIM FLAHERTY: My pleasure. PO: There seemed to be a bit of a mixed message in the budget. On the one hand, it was transformational; on …
Read MoreChatting with a visitor to his Langevin Block office in mid-August, Stephen Harper reflected on the daunting math of a majority, and acknowledged it was an unlikely outcome of an election. He ran through the scenarios …
Read MoreOn the morning of March 10, Liberal campaign director Raymond Boucher received the latest ”œinternals” from François Décarie of Ipsos, the party's pollster in the Quebec campaign. It told quite a different story than the CROP …
Read MoreWelcome to our special issue, “Canada in the Pacific Century,” aligned with a national conference organized by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and held in Ottawa on September 24-25. We begin with a Q&A with …
Read MoreAt 6.00 a.m. on the second Monday of the spring campaign, Jim Flaherty was at the Pickering GO station, meeting commuters on their way to work in Toronto. From 905 to 416, the two area …
Read MoreThere is a place in Oshawa called the Polish Hall, which is an obligatory campaign stop on the political pilgrimage to power. When Stephen Harper went there on the final Friday before the January 23 …
Read MoreQuelque part en 2010, le discours international sur les changements climatiques s’est recentré sur les énergies propres. Et peut-être est-ce le discours sur l’état de l’Union de Barack Obama qui, dès janvier 2010, a marqué …
Read MoreLester B. Pearson, qui n'a jamais dirigé un gouvernement majoritaire en quatre élections, arrive loin devant en tête du palmarès d'Options politiques des premiers ministres du demi-siècle prenant fin avec le 50e anniversaire du couronnement …
Read MorePOLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Mulroney, thanks for doing this. March 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of the Acid Rain Accord. When you first met President Reagan in 1984, when you were leader of the opposition, he …
Read MorePour souligner ses 40 ans d'activité, l'Institut de recherche en politiques publiques s'est tourné vers les provinces, faisant valoir leur roÌ‚le central dans la fédération canadienne. Options politiques a ainsi réuni un jury de 30 …
Read MoreNearly two Canadians in three and nine Quebecers in 10 have heard of ”œreasonable accommodation,” according to an SES Research poll conducted for Policy Options. In Canada as a whole, 63.7 percent of respondents have heard …
Read MorePrès de deux Canadiens sur trois et neuf Québécois sur dix ont entendu parler des « accommodements raisonnables », révèle un sondage SES Research réalisé pour Options politiques. Dans tout le pays, 63,7 p. 100 des …
Read MoreCelebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the Institute for Research on Public Policy was coendowed by Ottawa and the provinces. In recognition of the vital role of the provinces and their importance in the Canadian federation, …
Read MoreLester B. Pearson, who in four elections never won a majority government, is the landslide winner in a Policy Options ranking of Canadian prime ministers of the last half-century, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of …
Read MoreThere are now two constitutional traditions in Canada, the British North America Act of 1867 (BNA Act), now known as the Constitution Act, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms of 1982. One gave birth …
Read MoreIn a way, Stéphane Dion's problems began on the day and because of the manner in which he won the Liberal leadership in December 2006, coming from a distant third place to overtake frontrunners Michael …
Read MoreWhen President Barack Obama hosted Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the White House in early February, the good vibes triggered a stream of positive appraisals. Lawrence Martin, a noted student of Canada-US relations, wrote afterwards in …
Read MoreWhat do we know now that we wouldn't have known if the Gomery Commission hadn't been appointed? How much have we learned from Gomery that we haven't already learned from the auditor general's report on …
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