The SNC-Lavalin affair is about many things. It’s about conflict of interest, pressure from the prime minister and whether to split the roles of the attorney general and the...
Cold War II has begun, and Iran and Canada are early battlegrounds, albeit of very different orders of magnitude. As the last Cold War showed, nuclear-armed superpowers will do...
Canadian businesses of all sizes feel the impacts of global standards, directly or indirectly. These standards affect Canadian companies because they either form the basis for our domestic laws...
In the same decade that saw the most dramatic global decline in democratic values since the Second World War, Canada all but abandoned aid for international democracy support. So...
In May 1968, Pierre Trudeau announced his decision to conduct a thorough review of Canada’s foreign and defence policies. It would take 25 months to complete and would absorb...
Canada is one of over 100 other countries that are in intense discussions and negotiations in Paris about how to fundamentally reform the international corporate tax system. While other...
In the spring of 2018, Rukmini Callimachi, a national security reporter with The New York Times, published a podcast series titled “Caliphate. ” Canadian listeners were shocked to hear...
The ongoing civil war in Yemen has been declared the world’s worst humanitarian crisis by the United Nations. With millions of Yemenis displaced and more than 22 million in...
As a founding member of the institutions that shaped the post-Second World War international architecture, Canada has on occasion punched above its weight. But in the dog-eat-dog world of...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has invested a lot of political capital in defending women’s and girls’ rights worldwide. It has led global discussions and helped defend development gains...
