Policy Options

In late June of this year Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister, John Manley, and United States Homeland Security Director, Tom Ridge announced a ”œthirty point smart bor- der” plan designed...

September 11, it is said, has changed everything. However true this may be””and I tend to think that it is not very true at all””one thing it certainly should...

I take as my departure the search for the right balance between the freedoms of the individual and the securi- ty of the state. Clearly, there is often a...

There is a serious imbalance between ”œprotest, free- dom and order” or between ”œdissent and democra- cy” in Canada today. Historically, the Canadian state has always managed to skew...

Do you remember 1987? That was the year when the Sommet de la Francophonie was held in Quebec City. Thirty-nine heads of attended. The opening ceremony took place in...

I learned from my mentors in the practice of law many years ago that it’s wise to begin with a strategic conces- sion. I’m about, therefore, to make a...

Quelque chose a changé ces récentes années sur la scène internationale avec les évènements et mani- festations de rues survenues lors la rencontre de l’APEC à Vancouver en novembre...

When Prime Minister Jean Chrétien proudly announced that the Rocky Mountain resort community of Kananaskis would be the site for the June 2002 summit of G8 leaders, officials in...

The attacks on New York and Washington a year ago were ghastly phenomena. They killed (most Westerners would argue) the innocent. They also killed by surprise. They killed, too,...

Plusieurs leçons peuvent être tirées des événements du 11 septembre, mais toutes ne font pas l’unanimité. Un certain nombre de constatations peut cependant être avancé sans trop de risques...

In the beginning, September 11, 2001, or 9/11, as it is now known, had an impact on virtually every Canadian. There was a mixture of shock that a terrorist...

More and more government actions are being jus- tified by the need to impose rules for dealing with each and every possible security issue, at the expense of enhancing...

This paper is a discussion of the Canada/U.S. border and its role in the protection of national security. It is argued here that the relationship between security and the...

The September 11 attacks were not simply destructive of lives and buildings. They inflicted profound psy- chic damage””damage that must be understood if we are to grasp the connections...

On June 28, 2002, 51 years after the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Status of Refugees, the governments of Canada and the United States announced that they...