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Options: Senator Kirby, these two reports that came out about the same time: the Romanow Commission report and the report of the Kirby Committee on Health Care: to what...

We are at the beginning of what I believe will be the most exciting decade of our times. Driven by the twin forces of glob- alization and technological advance,...

Since the Prime Minister’s confirmation in Johannesburg of Canada’s intent to ratify before year’s end, the intensity of the Kyoto debate has certainly  increased. It has not, unfortunately, uniformly...

OECD countries committed themselves to sustain- able development at the Rio ”œEarth Summit” in 1992. This commitment was reinforced on the 10- year anniversary of that landmark event, at...

In Alberta, public support for the Kyoto Protocol appears to be melting as quickly as snow during a mid- winter chinook. Public opinion polls suggest that support for ratifying...

Canadian industry must do its share to address cli- mate change. Many companies, including Alcan, have reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since the early 1990s. But now it appears...

AÌ€ la Suite de l’annonce du Premier ministre Jean Chrétien que le Parlement canadien devrait se prononcer sur la ratification du protocole de Kyoto avant la fin de l’année,...

Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol does not preclude Canadians from developing a Made-in-Canada action plan on climate change; it compels us to do so. Kyoto provides an internationally-agreed framework for...

Le 2 septembre 2002, aÌ€ l’occasion du Sommet de Johannesburg sur le développement durable, le Premier ministre du Canada, M. Jean Chrétien, a annoncé qu’il soumettrait la ratification du...

You don’t need to travel very far in France to alight upon a prime example of intermodalism in opera- tion. The main airport in Paris will do nicely. As...

In 1997, the federal government picked a number out of the air and agreed that Canada’s commitment under the Kyoto Protocol should be to reduce its emissions of greenhouse...

Most Canadians support our ratification of the Kyoto Protocol for a profoundly non-economic reason. They worry about what kind of hellish lives their children and grandchildren will have to...

Against a backdrop of increas- ing economic ties, the Kyoto Protocol emerges as a potential source of differences across the NAFTA partners. Were Canada to ratify the Protocol””the oft-repeated...

In the fateful spring of 1991, I did not choose to leave External Affairs to become the minister of constitution- al affairs. I was quite happy, solving other people’s...

J’étais membre du gouvernement du Québec lors des débats qui entouré€rent le référendum sur l’Entente de Charlottetown. Je fus appelé en cette qualité aÌ€ prononcer des discours et aÌ€...

The tenth anniversary of the defeated Charlottetown Consensus Report, rejected in a landmark constitu- tional referendum on October 26, 1992, reopened the debate on the complex reasons for its...

It is hard to believe that ten years have gone by since the Multilateral Constitutional Negotiations, which led as we all know to the ill-fated Charlottetown Accord, took place...

In the face of challenges in key policy areas such as health care and the environment, public expectations of gov- ernment are high. Canadians, however, are less sure than...

Le projet d’un instrument international visant aÌ€ pro- téger la diversité culturelle a franchi une étape importante ces dernié€res semaines. Lors d’une réunion tenue au Cap, en Afrique du...

Policy efforts to improve Canada’s competitive position in the auto industry provided a litmus test of the Pearson govern- ment’s efforts to build better relations with President John F....

Michael Hart is too modest when he writes of his study that it is an attempt to ”œmake a contribution to the histo- ry of ideas and public policy.”...

The ”œproblem” of immigration raises a number of questions. In the first place, is it a problem at all? Neither Diane Francis nor Daniel Stoffman is against immigra- tion: Francis...

The ”œproblem” of immigration raises a number of questions. In the first place, is it a problem at all? Neither Diane Francis nor Daniel Stoffman is against immigra- tion: Francis...

In the August issue of Policy Options, Dr. Conrad Winn claimed that CBC television news is biased in favour of the left. It is imperative that we discuss this...

Part of going to a foreign country is spending time in stores fumbling with change, trying to make sense of the local currency. Arriving in France last August to spend...