Policy Options

POLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Flaherty, thank you for doing this. The budget, from fiscal imbalance to fiscal balance, and the $39-billion transfer story. It must be nice to live in...

Today, technology is advancing faster than ever. Books like Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat, really pronounce that it’s a fun- damental change, that things are never going to...

After allowing for the requisite set of policies relating to the high-profile environmental dossier and the generous sprinkling of electoral sweeteners that characterize minority budgets, Finance Minister James Flaherty’s...

Debates about whether there is a fiscal (im)balance”” a funding gap between provincial responsibilities and tax revenues ”” and whether the 2007 fed- eral budget solved it obscure the...

Les électeurs québécois ont-ils changé aÌ€ ce point? Ont-ils vrai- ment abandonné le projet souverainiste et l’idée d’un modé€le québécois distinct, aÌ€ saveur social- démocrate? Si on en juge...

The Quebec election provided a good opportunity to test the importance of leadership attributes, the strength of party brands and the degree to which voters felt affiliated with the...

On the morning of March 10, Liberal campaign director Raymond Boucher received the latest ”œinternals” from François Décarie of Ipsos, the party’s pollster in the Quebec campaign. It told...

Le soir du 15 novembre 2005, vingt-neuf ans apré€s premié€re prise du pouvoir, André Boisclair devenait le sixié€me chef du Parti québécois sous les auspices les plus favorables. Le...

Common wisdom has it that there were three stories in the recent Quebec election. The first was the collapse of the Parti Québécois vote. The second was the failure...

Les élections québécoises de 2007 ont illustré la ten- dance aÌ€ la négativité qui s’est imposée dans les stratégies de communication depuis une dizaine d’années au Québec et au...

Quebec voters who selected their election season newspapers based on the expectation that their paper’s news coverage would be tilted toward favoured candidates were disappointed, according to a cam-...

« Ça sent 1976 ! » Le chef du Parti québécois, André Boisclair, ne pensait peut-être pas si bien dire durant cette campagne électorale provinciale, au terme de laquelle...

On November 15, 1976, the Parti Québécois became the first sovereignist party in Quebec history to form a government. It was said then that Canada and Quebec would never...

             « Lorsque vous avez numériquement le dessous, soyez capable de battre en retraite. » Sun Tzu, L’art de la guerre Quand on aligne les...

By now, anyone who is remotely interested knows that Quebec voters elected themselves a minority government last month. Learned commentators reminded their audiences that this was a rarity, with...

On se rappellera que les négociations de l’été 1980 ont débouché sur la conférence des premiers ministres de septembre 1980. Plusieurs comités avaient été formés sur une variété de...

The conventional, hierarchical structure of government has prevented governments from collaborating with each other or with the private and voluntary sectors. Efforts to change that structure challenge long-standing practices...

He may have been out of politics in Alberta for more than two decades, but when Peter Lougheed speaks, he still commands enormous attention. And recently, he’s been speaking...