Policy Options

Fellow Conservatives and fellow Canadians. Maybe it took us a couple of extra years, but welcome to the 21st century. I tell you tonight that as a party we...

Quand le Parti libéral du Québec a présenté son slogan électoral, peu avant le déclenchement des élections, en mars 2003, bien des observateurs se demandaient comment les libéraux avaient...

The March 23, 2004, federal budget can lay claim to be the formal launching pad for what might be termed ”œhourglass federalism,” namely the growing range of federal government...

Maybe the cupboard really is bare. In many ways the most interesting chart in Finance Minister Ralph Goodale’s first budget, delivered March 23, was the table ”œChanges in the...

Imagine if the CEO of a large corporation pledged his com- pany would never again borrow a single dollar. ”œDebt is bad,” he might announce to the annual meeting....

L’approche retenue dans le premier budget Goodale n’est pas sans rappeler celle des premiers budgets Martin : priorité aÌ€ la prudence budgétaire et peu d’accent sur les relations financié€res...

National defence budgets, capabilities and policies have received considerable attention in recent months. With the swearing-in of a new govern- ment last December 12, there was a clear opportunity...

For observers of environmental policy in Canada, the 2004 budget speech engendered little excitement. After references to a « focused budget plan » that would « demonstrate unequivocally the principles of financial...

The 2004 budget contained two major sets of policy announcements relating to access to education. These two proposals ”” the first a set of improvements to the Canada Student...

As you may have noticed, philosophers are constantly on the lookout for practical solu- tions to concrete social problems. Thus it should come as no surprise to learn that,...

An elected Senate is an urgent need, too important to remain undone because federal and provincial politicians cannot agree on the constitutional amendment required for full reform. There is...

La création d’un Conseil de la fédération, proposée par Jean Charest et approuvée en principe par les premiers ministres des provinces et des territoires lors de leur conférence annuelle...

Canada’s changing FDI patterns are well known ”” its share of inward FDI has fallen steadily over the past 30 years, whereas it has maintained its share of the...

The growth of anti-harvesting movements ”” particu larly with respect to trapping, sealing and logging ”” illustrates changing values, attitudes to authority, and accepted behaviours in Canada as well...

L’argumentation présentée dans les trois premié€res parties de ce livre était assez évidente ; par comparaison, celle qui suit l’est peut- é‚tre un peu moins. Nous avons essayé d’établir...

Le déferlement triomphant du néolibéralisme ces dernié€res années, qui ne me réjouit pas, s’explique bien suÌ‚r par des événements planétaires comme l’effondrement du communisme, mais aussi par un travail...

It is exceedingly rare that a reviewer gets the opportunity to lavish unconditional and highly deserved praise on a book and its author. And yet, such an occasion makes...