Policy Options

Gordon Robertson —  a good, fair, principled and ever so courteous man —  was a modest person. But we here today know that he was a giant. Indeed, he...

La France est maintenant engagée au Mali. Elle était nécessaire. Le terrorisme allait submerger ce pays ami. Ce terrorisme qui menace toute l’Afrique de l’Ouest, mais également le monde...

In the last decade, Canada’s share of the world export market has slipped from about 4.5 percent to about 2.5 percent, and our share of the export market for...

The energy sector makes more money, employs more people and generates a wider impact on Canada’s trade balance than any other business. We grow a lot of wheat, we...

We seem to be drifting into dangerous waters in the life of the public affairs of this province when courts cannot predict, with any practical degree of certainty, whether...

I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and upfront, I apologise for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that...

November’s United Nations General Assembly vote to accept Palestine as a nonmember observer state will have ramifications that have yet to be discerned. Canada was among a very small...

Economist Albert Hirschman was a great thinker. He was not a household name, nor did he win a Nobel Prize for economics. But he made an enormous contribution to...

Quel regard portez-vous sur le conflit au Mali ? Que pensez-vous de l’intervention militaire de la France ? Il fallait une intervention militaire rapide. Il n’y avait pas d’autres...

L’intervention française au Mali est une bonne chose pour, au moins, cinq raisons : 1. Elle donne un coup d’arrêt à l’instauration d’un État terroriste au cœur de l’Afrique...

If you are the type of person who wishes you’d taken more statistics courses in university, this book is either the one for you or the cure for that yearning.  ...

The allegations of vote suppression through the practice of robo-calling using automatic dialing and announcing  devices  during  the  last  Canadian  federal election campaign has raised troubling questions about the...

The modern political landscape is full of new technologies, new devices and new forms of organization that are re-making the way politics is conducted. Our candidates and their aides...

There is no shortage of views on the challenges confronting the Middle East or the path from conflict to peace and stability. If this is true of the region...

The ongoing furor about apparent abuse of robo-calls in the last federal election has raised wide concern about the impact of new technologies on election campaigns. The Chief Electoral Officer is expected to report to Parliament this...

By 2075, the United Nations’ mid-range projection for global population growth predicts that human numbers will peak at about 9.5 billion people. This means that there could be an...

There has been a distinct difference in the rate of economic growth between Canada’s regions over the past several years. Momentum has clearly favoured western Canada, where rising prices...

The Conservative government ran a media campaign in 2012 to raise national awareness and pride in the War of 1812, fought between the United States and the British Empire...

Over the past couple of years, the Canadian public has been the target of a somewhat peculiar series of history lessons courtesy of the Harper government. If you’ve been...

The Harper government has committed itself to an important goal: to complete negotiations on a free trade agreement with India by the end of 2013. Given the scope and...

Canada has a problem most other leading economies would be delighted to have: thousands of unfilled jobs.  From the  booming  oil  sector  in  St.  John’s, Newfoundland, to the high...

Since achieving a majority in 2011, Stephen Harper’s government has had an easier path pushing new laws through Parliament aimed at fulfilling its pledges to get tough on crime....

There may be situations requiring our immediate enforcement action and we will at times do so. But otherwise, we will continue to investigate these incidents and will lay charges...

The  trajectory  of  Aboriginal  protests  over  the  past few months followed an uneven course. Some non-Aboriginal Canadians were initially engaged by the spontaneity of the protest events, enjoying the...

Après le mouvement Occupy et le « printemps érable » au Québec, c’est au tour des Premières Nations de manifester leur mécontentement. De Victoria à Halifax, en passant par...

It is fascinating to watch local television when you travel to foreign countries. But often the programming is incomprehensible to the visitor, because of a language barrier, but also...

One of the most effective ways to address the difficult economic and social conditions facing Canada’s Aboriginal people is to ensure that more of them are able to get a...

While Idle No More has captured the attention of the Canadian public and the global media, the  response to the protests has included frustration that it is difficult to...

Le Mali est un pays pauvre. Enclavé et en partie désertique, comptant près de 16 millions d’habitants, il a une économie principalement agricole, qui n’a engendré en 2011 qu’un revenu...

Canada has been slow to capitalize on one of the most important sources of competitive advantage among advanced industrialized economies: the power of great design. We can, in part, blame history....

The election of Kathleen Wynne to lead the Ontario Liberals gives the governing party a narrow opportunity to renew its support with an electorate that has been shaken by...

The Idle No More movement is altering the dynamic in Aboriginal relations, stirring a new political chemistry that may change the power balance not only between Aboriginal leaders and...