

Options: You’ve spoken of the hol- lowing out of corporate Canada. What did you mean by that? Gordon Nixon: I spoke of the hol- lowing out of corporate Canada...
C’est pour moi un honneur et un plaisir de me retrouver ici a cette tribune. Je suis particuliérement fier d’étre ici a un moment ou notre parti se bat...
Are we a target? Is Canada and are Canadians targets in a war on terror? There was a story in the New York Times recently, which is one of...
How can a country that is extremely dependent on a superpower, both for its defence and for its eco- nomic well-being, conduct an autonomous foreign policy and stand up...
Only during times of grave national emergency have issues of defence and security found themselves at or near the top of the national political agenda. During the two World Wars,...
In the extensive 2002 Chicago Council on Foreign Relations survey of US attitudes toward foreign policy, Americans consider Canada to be their best friend in the world, ranking just ahead...
Cassandras on both sides of the border have been warning of the dire consequences to Canada if we don’t improve relations with the United States, while some Canadian political leaders...
In the early through mid-1990s, US diplomats were sometimes asked about the status of our bilateral rela- tions with Canada. At first cautiously and then with increased confidence, we...
The Commission on health care has reported to Parliament. Led by a prominent public figure from Saskatchewan, the Commission spent two years travelling across the country and marshalling research...
Le Parti libéral du Québec a présenté a la mi-septembre un plan de gouvernement clair et chiffré. Notre plan présente nos priorités d’action dans cinq domaines cruciaux pour l’avenir...
En 1999, dans la foulée du débat sur l’Entente cadre sur l’union sociale, Claude Ryan publiait dans les pages de la revue Inroads (no. 8) son évaluation de cette...
It is important to state at the outset that the issue of vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI) is at the heart of the cur- rent debate on the future of...
One of the arguments that we have been hearing against increased privatization of the health-care system, from Roy Romanow among others, is derived from the idea that medical care...
Walking home from a meeting in Ottawa in late November, Ed Broadbent was reflecting on the New Democratic Party leadership. Since sum- mer, the former NDP leader had been...
The ideological blooming of the neo-conservative revolution occurred during the 1980s. Not until the 1990s, however, did Canadians feel the lash of the radical downsizing in the role and support...
Few countries have developed comprehensive sport policies. Fewer still have focused on a policy framework for the regulation of performance-enhancing substances and methods. The fact of the matter is that...
“Lack of equipment and materi- al. Undermanning of units. Overdeployment. Not enough time for family. Soldiers who are on food stamps, and soldiers who are poorly housed,” said one...
Canada has been blessed with a tradition of excellent military historians and, with his latest work, Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace, Jack Granatstein has surely solidified...
The word Italy evokes many largely warm, images…hospi- tality…sophistication…family…history…culture…opera…cui- sine…fashion…architecture…to name a few. But ”œgood government” does not immediately spring to mind. Which is precisely why Filippo Sabetti’s book...
La lecture de l’article de Desmond Morton dans le dernier numéro d’Options politiques (« History-teaching in Canada : the past does not change but its interpretation can alter radically...
The blessing””and curse””of the Internet age is that even if you’re living a quarter of the way around the globe, as I am this year in France, you can keep...
Will the results of the US 2002 mid-term election make a difference to the pursuit of Canadian economic, security and other interests with the United States? We believe they...