Policy Options

When economic historians look back at Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s 2010 budget, it may well be that the creative and enduring legacy will be that the budget began, at...

Having served with Canadian forces in Haiti, in the Balkans and in various locations in the Central Command Area of Responsibility, and even having a few intrepid souls with...

POLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Flaherty, thanks for doing this. JIM FLAHERTY: A pleasure. PO: First of all, on the budget, the deficit, you seem to have made a strong case...

On March 4, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty brought down Budget 2010, in which Ottawa announced the largest deficit on record ($53.8 billion) for this fiscal year and five more...

Les Canadiens jugent acceptable la politique de déficit adoptée pour faire face à la conjoncture économique, ils souhaitent que les mesures de stimulation économique soient maintenues et approuvent le...

When federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty concluded his budget speech in the House of Commons on March 4, it is said that the Parliamentary Press Gallery headline writers were...

Le processus budgétaire — la préparation, la présentation et le suivi du budget — est un des piliers de la gestion publique. Les documents qui sont produits aux diverses...

As well as committing $19 billion to the second round of stimulus spending, the 2010/11 federal budget outlines a plan to gradually reduce the deficit from $49.2 billion in...

Dans son exposé budgétaire, le ministre fédéral des Finances annonçait : « Je propose un programme de contrôle des dépenses sur deux ans qui s’appliquera à tous les secteurs...

The development of a country’s foreign policy begins with a clear definition of one’s national interests; this is then overlaid with a deep understanding of the global environment and...

At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps, India will awake to freedom. When we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and...

Le terrible tremblement de terre de janvier 2010 en Haïti a bouleversé l’opinion publique partout sur la planète et provoqué un élan de générosité sans précédent, du moins en...

Recent efforts such as the one by Allan Rock, former Canadian foreign minister and now president of the University of Ottawa, to harness the combined energies of Canada’s Haitian...

Près de deux mois après le terrible séisme qui a frappé Haïti en janvier dernier, l’action humanitaire continue de se mettre péniblement en place. Alors que le Canada entame...

“The immediate emergency phase may be over, but the long-term work is just beginning, and it’s no less an emergency,” warned Karline Kleijer, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) head of...

Climategate: Is it real, imagined or simply exploitable by climate skeptics? As if the opening of a new decade were not complicated enough with the leftovers of a major...

The burly Soviet-era bank teller stares at me blankly and insists she cannot dispense funds unless I have a passport. Not identification, but my passport. Because it is a...

What a wonderful party it was. For the third time, Canada proved to be a generous and gracious Olympic host, and demonstrated again our ability to organize major international...

Il y a un peu plus de 10 ans, en février 1998, le Canada entrait dans l’ère des surplus budgétaires. Pour la première fois en près de 30 ans, le...