Policy Options

In addressing globalization, I’m mindful of the Will Rogers quip: ”œEven if you are on the right track, if you just sit there, you will get run over.” In...

POLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Wilson, thank you for doing this. You are the Chair of the Competition Policy Review Panel. What does that mean? RED WILSON: Well, it’s a panel...

Le cadre de priorités que je propose repose sur le fait que le Canada est une société prospère, mais que son succès masque des vulnérabilités préoccupantes pour l’avenir. Le...

Professional sport is a big busi- ness in Alberta. In the hockey rink and the football stadium, the province has deeply rooted and passionate rivalries in sports. An old...

Les Canadiens sont d’humeur étonnamment opti- miste, les deux tiers d’entre eux jugeant que leur pays est engagé sur une bonne voie. Selon ce premier sondage Nanos sur «...

One of the iron laws of politics is that good times produce happy voters, who re-elect governments. So governments prime every pump, grease every industry and use every tool of...

If it seems that Stephen Harper has been prime minister of Canada for many years, it is not because so much time has passed, or because his government has...

In the end, it wasn’t even close. After trading the lead in the polls with the opposition Progressive Conservatives for almost a year, Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal govern- ment was...

Like the Virginia Slims cigarette ad slogan ”œYou’ve come a long way baby,” that successfully tapped into a feminist desire for women’s freedom in the late 1960s ”” even...

So far, the 2008 American presidential campaign does not make sense. Since 2000, reporters have been warning about the growing polarization between ”œred” and ”œblue” America. After the 2004...

As the Harper government searches for an effective cli- mate policy, it faces domestic and international pressure to have Canada sign on again to emission reduction tar- gets. Canada...

Canada has laid claim to being an ”œemerging clean energy superpower.” Although the expression has been used by Prime Minister Harper and his ministers and a few others since...

Anyone who is following the infrastructure file ””beyond counting the number of times their car hits a pothole on the way to bringing the kids to sports practice ””...

Canada’s large cities are nice places to live. In terms of quality of life, Canadian cities consistently perform well in surveys. One well-known survey of cities around the world...

The latest renewal of the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) Agreement took place on May 12, 2006. It was a landmark event in that the US and Canada agreed...

Who would have predicted as recently as 12 months ago that Arctic sovereignty would be the lead theme in the recent Speech from the Throne? But perhaps we should...

Le Québec et la France entretiennent une relation politique privilégiée qui se manifeste par l’intensité des coopérations et des échanges culturels, par le statut diplomatique tré€s particulier qu’a obtenu...

There are now two constitutional traditions in Canada, the British North America Act of 1867 (BNA Act), now known as the Constitution Act, and the Charter of Rights and...

I had a merry Xmas alone in my own room and my dinner of tea & toasts & drank all your healths. John A. Macdonald, in a letter to...

No one else in the country knew politics as well…as he did…Macdonald hadn’t so much created a nation as manipulated and seduced and connived and bullied it into existence...

L’automne 2007 a été identitaire. Pendant que Gérard Bouchard et Charles Taylor faisaient leur tournée pour entendre les Québécois parler de leurs craintes et de leurs espoirs, Jean Charest...