Policy Options

No province, city, or municipal district in Canada is without some office dedicated to the elusive activity of economic develop- ment. More jobs, faster growth, higher tax bases, better...

No subject generates more hot air from politicians around the world than environmental policy. It’s not hard to see why. The gap between what we say we believe about...

In the late 1980s, mounting evidence that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released by human activity were adversely affecting the global climate started putting pressure on governments to control their...

In 1869-70, horrific storms on the Great Lakes the deaths of more than 500 mariners. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald responded, and in 1871 the Meteorological Service of Canada...

In politics, what is or isn’t possible often depends on who you’re listening to. In the summer of 2004, I was appointed minister of the environment by Prime Minister...

It’s a simple fact that cities use a lot of energy. Energy heats, cools and lights buildings. It powers infrastructure and industry, runs computers and other technologies and fuels...

What is the role of our city governments in our col- lective efforts to improve air quality and reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that cause climate change?...

L’Assemblée nationale du Québec a, en date du 19 avril 2006, sanctionné le projet de loi sur le développement durable. Selon le nouveau ministre du Développement durable, de l’Environnement...

Wayne Gretzky skated not to where the puck was, but to where it was going to be. That same sense of foresight drives a surprising number of Canada’s billion-dollar...

Climate change is one of the great challenges of our era, demanding the attention and actions of governments, business, and civil society throughout the world. Global warming is primarily...

My own history working in the field of climate pol- icy began in 1986, when I was persuaded by a very persuasive environment minister, Tom McMillan, to join his...

This summer, I had the holiday opportunity to drive through a good deal of British Columbia, and I was struck as always by the awe- inspiring scenery. This year,...

Ten years ago, on October 2, 1996, former Quebec pre- mier Robert Bourassa passed away. To the political and journalistic world, it marked the end of an era and...

Au Québec, ouÌ€ le phénomé€ne du vieillissement de la population est plus marqué qu’ailleurs au Canada, on estime que la proportion des gens aÌ‚gés de 65 ans et plus...

To date Canadians know little of the trade policy of the Harper government beyond the settlement on softwood lumber it has secured with the United States. Trade policy is...

On July 31, Fidel Castro issued a proclamation stat- ing that power had been temporarily transferred to his brother Raul Castro and to a small group of Cuban leaders....

Too often we confuse productivity, innovation and intellectual property as if one necessarily depended on the others. The reality is quite different. Productivity does not depend on Canadian innovation...

From spending nearly four years at the United Nations I know that the UN has all the problems you would expect a 60-year-old institution to have, and more. I...

”œThe prime minister and his government are much on the right track.” So wrote Hugh Segal, in his pre-senatorial days, when the prime min- ister was Jean Chrétien. The...

Les années 1960 aÌ€ 1995 ont vu s’accélérer l’histoire politique canadienne. Ce livre jette un éclairage particulier sur Pierre Elliott Trudeau, l’homme qui a présidé aux destinées du gouvernement...

La guerre et la démocratie n’ont jamais fait bon ménage. Dans des termes maintes fois répétés depuis, le sénateur californien Hiram Johnson observait en 1917 que « quand arrive...

Je vous écris du plus bel endroit de la Terre. Je vous écris de l’Antarctique, le dernier continent vierge de la plané€te. Un continent qui n’a pas encore été conquis,...