Now that Parliament has resumed sitting, Canada’s public service will experience a minority government for the first time since Stephen Harper’s governments of 2006-11. Canadians elected a minority Liberal...
Meghan and Harry’s decision to live in Canada is a mixed blessing for monarchists and republicans alike. Many monarchists will be pleased to have a semipermanent royal-ish couple in...
Le 31 janvier 2020, le Royaume-Uni quittera officiellement l’Union européenne (UE). Il restera beaucoup à négocier pour encadrer les relations commerciales entre les deux entités, mais un cap aura...
The government of New Brunswick has recently come under fire for introducing a bill (Bill 11) that invokes the Charter’s “notwithstanding clause.” The bill would pre-emptively insulate from judicial...
The phrase “birth tourism” has been used by media and political parties to derogatively describe the circumstances in which noncitizen women come to Canada to give birth; the suspicion...
During Andrew Scheer’s leadership of the Conservative Party, and especially during the last election campaign, concerns about his moral convictions on abortion and same-sex marriage – and his attempt...
It is common to say that Canada’s energy and climate debate is polarized. Carbon taxes, pipelines, Indigenous consent — the debate is crowded with complicated subjects that attract strong...
For its 40th anniversary, Policy Options is asking Canadians from different corners of the Canadian political and public policy world to comment on articles that appeared in the magazine...
My subject is the governmental process at our federal level. I do not claim to offer a learned dissertation. I will give rather the illusions and disillusions of a...
The United Kingdom’s election result will bring about profound and lasting change. After months of parliamentary gridlock during which the prime minister, like his predecessor, was unable to marshal...
