Policy Options

In the world of public policy, econ- omists tend to debate the merits or drawbacks of a policy in terms of what it might do to the gross domestic...

Canadians think the mission in Afghanistan is good for our reputation in the world, but see the mission as very difficult and aren’t convinced we can succeed there. Those...

Some months ago, I reminded readers of Policy Options that Afghanistan was a deeply troubled place with a reputation for defeating its invaders. That did not guarantee that Canada’s...

To be crippled by bitter internal disputes over compro- mises for power is the curse of every ”œparty of principle.” That is the self-description of those parties organized around...

En dix jours, le PQ semble avoir effectué le plus brusque virage de son histoire. Du vendredi 4 mai, jour d’une entrevue « suicidaire » d’André Boisclair, au dimanche...

Il n’y a pas de place au Québec pour deux partis nationa- listes. Si l’ADQ reste forte, le PQ pourrait partir, comme l’Union nationale est disparue avec l’arrivée des...

Il en avait fait son slogan de campagne : Ensemble, tout devient possible ! Au lendemain de la victoire de Nicolas Sarkozy, on peut penser, en effet, que tout...

Saturday in Paris, one week before the French presiden- tial election. Returning to my hotel after attending a conference at Sorbonne University, I noticed in the lobby that the...

Tony Blair and his colleagues set out to modernize the British Labour Party and social democratic politics, and ultimately to provide the leadership to trans- form Britain into a...

”œScotland has changed for good and forever. There may well be Labour governments and Labour first ministers in the decades to come, but never again will we see the...

On the morning of April 23, I learned that Boris Yeltsin had died. Memories surged of the four intense and dramatic years my wife and I had spent in...

While I am a native westerner (Wakaw, Saskatchewan), my hunch is that the principal reason why I was asked to comment on the ”œnew” Alberta was to provide an...

The playwright Arthur Miller once said that a good newspaper is ”œa nation talking to itself.” Certainly, one of the functions of the media is to bring shared experience...

Il est difficile de commémorer le 25e anniversaire de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés sans parler de la Loi constitutionnelle de 1982 qui lui a donné naissance. AÌ€...

Over the past few years, Irvin Studin, a young political thinker schooled at York University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Oxford, approached dozens of promi-...

Andrew Cohen is Canada’s peri- patetic prophet of doom. A networker par excellence, his Rolodex is chock-full of the best names in journalism and academe in Toronto and Ottawa...

Le dimanche 13 mai, Pauline Marois annonçait officiellement sa décision de solliciter la direction du Parti québécois. Trois jours plus toÌ‚t, Tony Blair avait laissé savoir qu’il quitterait son...

OPTIONS POLITIQUES : M. Dion, merci d’avoir accepté de nous rencontrer. Commençons par votre vision des relations fédérales-provinciales. Quel est, aÌ€ votre avis, l’équilibre approprié entre Ottawa et les provinces,...

Nous voici réunis dans un Parlement fort différent de celui que nous avons quitté le 21 février dernier. En élisant un gou- vernement minoritaire, les Québécois nous ont rappelé...