Policy Options

Avec le déclin des identités partisanes, les électeurs sont devenus plus versatiles dans leurs préférences électorales et, surtout, ils attendent le déroulement de la campagne avant de faire leur...

Chatting with a visitor to his Langevin Block office in mid-August, Stephen Harper reflected on the daunting math of a majority, and acknowledged it was an unlikely outcome of...

Canada’s latest federal election ended in bitter recriminations for some party leaders. Voters who had heard Stephen Harper set aside his very own law against snap elections, had heard...

Notre pays a été fondé il y a 400 ans, en français, ici. En 2006, on a écrit une page, on a mis fin à la corruption des libéraux,...

Au moment de sa dissolution, en septembre 2008, 65 femmes siégeaient à la Chambre basse du Parlement canadien (64 avaient été élues le 23 janvier 2006). Avec un taux...

« J’ai fait beaucoup d’efforts pour comprendre le Québec et pour respecter ses priorités », a expliqué Stephen Harper quelques jours avant les élections du 14 octobre, pressentant déjà...

In the 2008 federal campaign, Stephen Harper closed the deal with Canadians sometime between the Thanksgiving turkey hitting the table and the pumpkin pie. Faced with uncertain economic times,...

Stephen Harper has said on many occasions that he views the path to a stable, durable, Conservative majority government — and the replacement of the Liberals as Canada’s natural...

It was a revealing moment during the English-language leaders’ debate when Stéphane Dion was asked how he intended to implement his Green Shift plan despite opposition to it from...

Even to a 10-year-old those were obviously momentous and important times. Our crowded house spilling strangers onto the back lawn for days, the never-ending heavy blue cigarette funk and...

The Internet, as a tool for on-line campaigning, is a moving target. The “killer app” for campaigners appears to change from election to election. Campaign Web sites and on-line...

Je conclurai seulement qu’à un prince, il est nécessaire d’avoir le peuple pour ami, autrement il n’a pas de remède dans l’adversité. Nicolas Machiavel, Le prince Les réalistes décrivent...

It has been 20 years since economic issues were at the forefront of a Canadian federal election campaign. In 1988, the debate on free trade with the United States...

Rarement aura-t-on vu aussi peu de changements sur la carte électorale du Québec. Trois circonscriptions seulement auront changé de mains, le 14 octobre dernier — Papineau et Brossard-La Prairie,...

National political campaigns in the era of the 24- hour news cycle are all in the moment. They rage from one end of the country to another, fuelled by...

Le Bloc québécois a été créé en 1990 par Lucien Bouchard dans la foulée de l’échec de l’entente Meech-Langevin et du rejet par le Canada des divers principes guidant...

The most exciting leadership race in the history of our party is over. Let’s get ready for the next election. Stéphane Dion, December 2, 2006 These words, coming on...

This was, arguably, the longest election campaign in Canadian history. It began on the floor of the Liberal leadership convention in December 2006 when Conservative Party operatives passed out...

According to public opinion data released during the recently completed Canadian federal election campaign, the Conservatives led all parties in public support from start to finish. Despite that fact,...

Les campagnes électorales constituent pour les sondeurs un moment clé. Tous les regards sont tournés vers eux, puisqu’il s’agit d’une occasion presque unique pour savoir si les sondages donnent...

Now that the dust has settled on another federal election in Canada, the political parties of every stripe can set aside their overly optimistic platforms about what they would...

The 2008 election will have a million post-mortems, engaging policy analysts in a litany of “what if” questions, including why the Prime Minister didn’t go a year ago, why...