Policy Options

Ce 30e congrès des membres du Parti libéral du Québec a lieu à un moment où plusieurs défis convergent sur notre route. Le Québec a besoin de nous. Qui...

Calls by Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for a renegotiation or opting out of NAFTA have prompted understandable concern in Canada, and presumably in Mexico as well. These...

The pharaohs did it. English kings do it. Every govern- ment does it. Let’s all do it, let’s fall in love…with bashing foreign trade. Second only to a war...

Some things about the Democratic contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seem settled. When all primaries and caucuses are concluded, Obama will have elected more delegates than Clinton. However,...

On September 18, 2005, I stood at polling stations in Logar Province and in Old Kabul to observe Afghanistan’s first parliamentary elections in over three decades. My most vivid...

Simon Reisman, a giant of postwar Canadian public policy, passed away in Ottawa on March 9, after a brief illness. We had the privilege of working with Simon in crafting...

In the annals of the development of health care in Canada, there are few people less alike than Tommy Douglas, the provincial premier revered as the father of Saskatchewan...

The post-election dust has finally settled in Alberta. With a land- slide win in early March, Premier Ed Stelmach and his Progressive Conservative Party have more or less clinched...

Almost exactly a decade ago, Finance Minister Paul Martin triumphantly announced in his February 24, 1998, budget that after 27 consecutive deficits Canada finally recorded a budgetary surplus for...

When Michael Wilson introduced the idea of a regular timetable for Canadian budgets in 1986 (generally, in February of each year), he was merely trying to be collegial toward...

Most economists would agree that reforming our tax system is imperative and that it is perhaps one of the most important conditions for improving the productivity and growth of...

It was at a Conservative policy conference at Niagara Falls in 1969 that, based on a paper from the research office, Robert L. Stanfield and his party first reflected...

Pour la 12e année consécutive, le gouvernement fédéral a présenté un budget équilibré. Hormis cette continuité dans l’équilibre financier, le budget fédéral 2008 contraste avec les précédents budgets. Plusieurs...

Depuis un siècle, le Québec a été une terre d’accueil pour l’industrie de l’aluminium primaire dont l’apport à la production mondiale est aujourd’hui d’environ 10 p. 100. Le bas...

La question de savoir s’il vaut mieux transformer l’électricité sur place ou exporter massivement la ressource revient à l’ordre du jour chaque fois que le gouverne- ment annonce l’octroi...

Multiculturally, we’re world class, claimed Frances Bula in the Vancouver Sun last December about the picture the 2006 census painted about immi- gration, citizenship, language and mobility. The percentage...

While much has been written concerning the gradual decline in union representation in Canada, there has been little if any public debate on the social consequence of that erosion....

How the mighty have fallen. The triumphalist proclamations of the late 1990s and early 2000s had it that conservatism and the Repub- lican Party were in a ”œpermanent” major-...

La ministre des Finances du Québec, Monique Jérôme-Forget, a présenté son budget 2008 sous le signe de la prudence et de la discipline. Évitant de faire des vagues, elle...