Policy Options

Until recently in Canada, for someone to launch into a dis- cussion at a social function about proportional representation (PR) was the quickest way of getting the eyes of...

A few days after winning back a Liberal majority in the 1974 election, Pierre Trudeau invited his national cam- paign committee and media advisers to dinner at 24 Sussex...

The current evolution in Canadian federalism is pro- found, unstoppable, and a joy to behold. The net result will be a heightened respect for the concepts of subsidiarity and diversity....

In the wake of the historic September 2004 health care agreement, concerns have arisen that the asymmetric treatment of Quebec will become the template for future federal-provincial deals and...

September’s First Ministers Meeting on health care ””the third within four years ”” was less different than billed. The effective negotiation was again out of pub- lic view, the...

Je lé€ve mon chapeau au remarquable travail accompli par MM. Charest et Pelletier lors de la dernié€re conférence des premiers ministres sur la santé. Mais apré€s toutes les déclarations...

There has of late been much discussion of a ”œnew urban agenda” supposedly being developed by the federal government. Much of the discussion surmis- es that new federal initiatives...

”œIt’s the information, stupid!” ”” a friend Although the language of exclusive jurisdictional cat- egories continues to dominate the political dis- course around federalism, it is being enriched and...

Il n’y a pas eu d’entente sur la santé le 15 septembre 2004. On ne parle mé‚me pas d’une entente-cadre, de nature administrative, comme celle de 1999 sur l’union...

Canada’s educational performance by international standards is quite good. Our 15-year-olds performed very well in the international PISA 2000 assessment of reading, maths and science (www.pisa.gc.ca), and Canadian students...

Society today is characterized by an economic order in which knowledge, rather than natural resources or capital, is the key to economic development. In this context, governments are strongly...

La problématique des changements climatiques suscite des débats de plus en plus soutenus au sein des opinions publiques, mais aussi au sein des ca- binets gouvernementaux. AÌ€ mesure que...

When the United States led its coalition into Iraq last year, they entered a world with new rules and different ways of seeing things. Now they find themselves having...

I keep changing my mind about whether the recent federal- provincial deal on health care and its ”œasymmetrical” annex for Quebec is a good thing or bad. On the...