Policy Options

POLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Baird, thanks for doing this. In January 2007, when you became the environment minister, you were sworn in on a day of a January thaw when...

An iconic piece of Alberta’s history is about to change. Last year the provincial govern- ment finally decided that, after a quar- ter of a century, it was time...

”œI am a member of no organized political party…I am a Democrat.” Will Rogers For forty years, American presidential politics has been in a comfortable rut. Beginning with the...

As the party of the centre in Canada, the Liberal Party of Canada spent much of its history building an inclusive country. The Canadian people have been supportive of...

In a way, Stéphane Dion’s problems began on the day and because of the manner in which he won the Liberal leadership in December 2006, coming from a distant...

La singularité d’un chef ne tient pas à ses caractéristiques individuelles, c’est un effet de système. Jean-Pierre Dupuy Il n’est pas exagéré de dire que le Parti libéral du...

I’m the leader and I want discipline. That’s clear. Stéphane Dion, March 27, 2008 When he made that plaintive call earlier this spring, Stéphane Dion was responding to the...

Despite the fact that most polls show the Liberals and Conservatives very close to each other in public support, the conventional wisdom in political and media circles is that...

Je pensais qu’il suffisait de faire à quelqu’un une proposition raisonnable, pour qu’il la considère tout aussi raisonnablement, sans passion, mais de toute évidence, ce n’est pas le cas....

”œStephen, if you’re listening, we are counting the days until the next election” ”” with those words spoken on that fateful evening of December 2, 2006, Stéphane Dion closed...

It is said that our Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is a brilliant political strategist. To be sure, he has proven adept at the science of segmentation, fastidiously iden- tifying...

First Nations, Inuit and Métis face persistent barriers that hinder their opportunities for learning, barriers that far exceed those facing non-Aboriginal Canadians. In 2001, for example, more than 4...

Il y a de ces hasards dans la vie. Les pays champions de la compétitivité sont aussi les pays champions en éducation… La Finlande, le Danemark et la Suisse...

Il y a quelques années, les enfants de mon quartier qui voulaient aller à la piscine municipale devaient payer un tarif d’un dollar le samedi et le dimanche. La...