1 octobre 2002
A remarkable turnaround with more work still to do
Earlier this year in my IRPP paper, Half-Way Home: Canada’s Remarkable Fiscal Turnaround and the Paul Martin Legacy, I reviewed Canada’s fiscal performance in the context of focusing on...
1 octobre 2002
The lost opportunities of Paul Martin – A PC view
Paul Martin’s tenure represents a decade of lost oppor- tunities for Canada. Those ten years marked the most significant changes in the global economy of any decade in history....
1 octobre 2002
A record based on good spin – An Alliance view
It is almost unfathomable that some are attempting to immortalize former finance minister Paul Martin as a hero. Martin has attempted to make himself appear fiscally conservative and as...
1 octobre 2002
Martin: communicator and consensus builder – A Liberal view
Paul Martin’s term as Canada’s finance minister from 1993 until 2002 will be remembered as historically significant primarily for his bold and successful attack on the federal budgetary deficit....
1 octobre 2002
Exploring the issue of Russell Mills’ firing (entretien)
”œI don’t think an inquiry today would be…successful.” ””Peter Desbarats Anthony Germain: Peter Desbarats, you’ve been in and out of the journal- ism business for quite a few decades...
1 octobre 2002
The prime minister had nothing to do…with the termination of Russ Mills (entretien)
Peter Mansbridge: Mr. Asper, has this been a difficult week for CanWest? Has it suffered from the stories sur- rounding this affair? Leonard Asper: Well, I think it’s been...
1 octobre 2002
A legacy, the media and more
Was it so very different working for Southam Inc. 10 or 20 years ago when they owned 17 news- papers across the country, and its chief execu- tive officers...
1 octobre 2002
Concentration with convergence – Goodbye, freedom of the press
Concentration in the ownership of newspapers is an old story for Canadians. And a sad story because politicians have stood aside indifferently while a necessary underpinning of democracy has...
1 octobre 2002
Canadian softwood lumber: what is the significance of the recent Canadian victory before the WTO?
On July 26, 2002, the World Trade Organization (WTO) panel in charge of the Canadian softwood lumber case brought by Canada against the United States issued a confidential preliminary...
1 octobre 2002
Robert Bourassa et l’économie du Québec
Pendant les trois décennies que dura sa carrié€re poli- tique, la grande priorité du premier ministre Bourassa fut le développement économique du Québec. Le développement social et culturel lui...
1 octobre 2002
Corporate governance policy and the case for caution
The crisis in American corporate governance raises a number of important questions for Canadian policy- makers. Should governance matter to policymakers? Does Canada have a serious governance problem? What...
1 octobre 2002
Contracts between physicians and governments need to change to reform our primary care system
The need to reform the way in which primary medical care services are provided has been a consistent theme in recent reports and reviews of the Canadian health-care system....
1 octobre 2002
Are there any convincing economic reasons for electricity privatization and deregulation in Ontario?
In a recent article about Ontario’s new electricity market (Policy Options, May-June 2002), John Grant points out that the privatization of Ontario’s electricity generation sector, and the opening of...
1 octobre 2002
The promise of federalism
Countries facing serious conflicts do not find resolu- tion in formulaic responses. That, in summary, was the conclusion””and is the challenge””faced by the over 500 scholars, practitioners and government...
1 octobre 2002
The tories turn from personalities to policy matters
On the weekend of August 22, 2002, 1,400 federal Progressive Conservatives gathered in Edmonton for their Party’s national general meeting. For months, journalists and pundits had speculated on how...
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