Policy Options

Coalition politics, like war, is at its core about intimacy and enmity — and frequently a large dollop of contempt. Once in a political blue moon, however, political enemies...

Much of Canada’s wealth and well-being is attributable to its success as a trading nation; in particular trade with the United States. The characteristics of the two economies and...

Recent years have seen the confluence of three well-documented factors in Canadian politics: a succession of minority Parliaments, a related heightening of the profile of the governor general and,...

How the mighty have fallen! The one-time engine of the national economy, western Canada sputtered dramatically in 2009. According to data from Statistics Canada, the provincial economies of the...

Le réchauffement climatique devrait figurer en tête de l’ordre du jour des chefs d’État des sommets du G8 et du G20, estiment les Canadiens, et la reprise économique au...

As a result of the great recession of 2008-09, the G20, following three unprecedented summit meetings within a year, has succeeded the G8 as the world’s new steering committee....

Canada is preparing to co-host, with Korea, the G20 meeting of world leaders in Toronto at the end of June. Every year brings challenges, some old, some new, for...

Summer is arriving in Canada. And so is the world. As the leaders of the major economic powers of the planet prepare to converge on Canada, the Prime Minister...

Leaders in Pittsburgh last September designated “the G20 to be the premier forum for our international economic cooperation.” It is critically urgent, at this moment in the G20’s development,...

Late this month Canada will host and co-host respectively the G8 and G20 summits of world leaders. The G8 Summit will focus on political and development issues, including ways...

La stratégie des pays européens a toujours été de maximiser leur représentation au sein des institutions de coopération internationale. Déjà en 1975, au moment de la création de ce...

Au moment d’écrire ces lignes, la Grèce subit de graves désordres sociaux, l’euro est en forte baisse, le Portugal et l’Espagne se préparent à la tempête qui s’annonce, et...

The traditional tools of central bankers have been regulation, setting the interest rates on short-term government debt obligations and open market operations. Beginning in the 1980s most Western countries...

As the chair of this year’s G8 Summit and co-chair of the G20 Summit, Canada will play a central role in shepherding through highly anticipated changes to the world’s...

Amid serious challenges to the world economy and financial markets, the leaders of the G20 countries gathered in Washington in November 2008. This first-ever G20 leaders’ summit was seen...

This is a big year for Canada, as we host not only the Winter Olympics, but also the G8 and G20 summits. As we prepare for these major events,...

When G20 leaders gathered in Washington in November 2008 and again in London in April 2009, they faced the need for extraordinary, coordinated action to restore global economic confidence,...

We are told that recovery from the Great Recession of 2008-09 is well under way. But the continuing turmoil in Greece and the periphery of the European Union, including...

Who will lead the global economy in the 2010s? Will it be the United States? Will it be China and India? Or will it be someone else? Globalization is...

The Great Recession, as the Governor of the Bank of Canada calls it, was deep, synchronous and global. Canadian GDP dropped by 3.3 percent, US GDP by close to 4...

Le budget présenté à la fin mars par le ministre Raymond Bachand met de l’avant une étrange conception de l’équité. L’approche est équitable, selon le ministre, parce que «...