Policy Options

Un pays divisé. Inquiet. Polarisé entre une droite dure, surtout blanche et protestante, et une gauche plus faible mais imposante et tenace, ancrée dans une vaste coalition arc-en-ciel réunissant...

Not a day goes by without another meeting, colloqui- um, study or think-in on how we should deal with Uncle Sam. We are in the midst of an avalanche...

There is a tendency for observers to magnify every bend in the path of current events into a major turning point for the road of history. Thus each election...

Never in the modern history of United States politics has a presidential election garnered so much attention beyond its borders. Incumbent President George W. Bush and his vice-president, Dick...

Looking back, one can see the landscape created by the shifting of politics’ grand tectonic plates. As they are slowing grinding into new alignments it is almost impossible to...

Que se passera-t-il le 2 novembre? Si on en croit les experts de la prévision des résultats électoraux, George W. Bush a de bonnes chances de remporter une victoire...

It has been three decades since Robert Charlebois made his musical contribution to the long-running debate over whether Canada and the United States were on a path of convergence...

With the US election rapidly approaching and intense jockeying between President Bush and Senator Kerry continuing apace, Americans are focused on little outside their country with the exception of...

No schism is more consequential in public life today than the divide between those who do and those who do not exercise their democratic franchise. This gulf is growing...

A minority government. A restive public. A prime minister who has said he will do better. Fertile ground for advancing democratic reform? Perhaps. Part of an agenda is already...

Even committed defenders of Canada’s classic ”œfirst-past- the-post” electoral system will find little encouragement in the recent election. Instead of a clear majority and the prospect of a decisive...

Canada has fallen behind other democratic countries in not providing strong protection by law for whistleblowers who reveal government waste, mis- management or wrongdoing. The federal government in the...

The investigation by the Public Accounts Committee into the sponsorship affair was successful in an unexpected and unintended way. It identified the crucial factor which allows such problems to...

I don’t mean to seem overly excitable, but the upcoming presi- dential election in the United States strikes me as being of monumental importance. What the contest between George...

As this is written, with six weeks left in the US presidential elec- tion race, George Bush is ahead in the polls. The same wise commenta- tors who just...