Policy Options

Options: This may be a strange question to ask the president of the Liberal Party, but are we facing a crisis of governance in this country? Are there issues...

Pourquoi? Why? Why invest so much time and effort in this party? I have sometimes asked myself that question, and you probably have too. Well, the easy answer is because...

Last October 24, I received a letter from the minister of finance, John Manley, and the secretary of state (International Financial Institutions), Maurizio Bevilacqua, requesting that the Senate Committee on...

Relentless is the siren song for mergers among Canada’s big banks. Sirens, of course, were sea nymphs who sang so enchantingly that ships would crash on the rocks. In...

Canada needs a bank merger review process that properly addresses the public interest, advances the country’s prosperity and ensures our nation’s future financial sovereignty. We also need a process...

A massive restructuring of financial institutions around the world has taken place in the past two decades. In the United States alone, more than 8000 commercial and saving banks...

In Canada, as in most other countries, the issue of bank  mergers has been and continues to be one of great public interest and concern. This concern is justified....

Lorsque la question des fusions bancaires a été soulevée en 1998 avec le projet de fusion de quatre grandes banques canadiennes en deux institutions, les petites entreprises se sont...

In late 2002, 400 social and health policy experts, community representatives and health researchers from Canada met at York University in Toronto at a confer- ence entitled ”œSocial Determinants...

 la fin de l’année 2002, la Direction de santé publique de Montréal publiait son cinquiéme rapport annuel intitulé La santé urbaine : une condition nécessaire a l’essor de Montréal...

Food used to be called a basic human need along with water, peace, shelter, education and primary health care. It has also been called a prerequisite for health. Food...

While there is increasing awareness of a housing crisis in Canada, there is little discussion of how  housing issues””especially housing insecurity”” are related to the health of Canadians. As...

Saint Matthieu ne manque pas de bons mots. Mon préféré Son principe de justice quelque peu odieux : « Car a tout homme qui a, l’on donnera et il sera...

Laissé a l’état de nature, l’homme serait condamné a une vie solitaire, misérable, dangereuse, animale et bréve, ainsi que l’a écrit le philosophe Thomas Hobbes, il y a trois...

How can the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) best use information technology (IT) to communicate? That is the key ques- tion Evan H. Potter and others...

The special issue of Policy Options on the Kyoto Protocol (December-January) was a timely one, coming as it did just before the historic House of Commons vote on December 10, 2002....

En France, ouÌ€ je passe l’année uni- versitaire en sabbatique, on peut voir une nouvelle annonce pu- blicitaire tré€s rigolote aÌ€ la télé. On y entend les paroles immortelles de...