February 1, 2003
From the Hollowing Out of Corporate Canada, to the Productivity Challenge
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...
February 1, 2003
La fin du modèle québécois
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...
February 1, 2003
Canada in the Age of Terror-Multilateralism Meets a Moment of Truth
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...
February 1, 2003
Coming to Terms with Uncle Sam: Managing Canada-US Bilateral Security After September 11
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...
February 1, 2003
Defence and Security Challenges for Canada in Light of the Bush Mid-Term Sweep
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,...
February 1, 2003
Canada-US Economic Relations: A Window of Opportunity
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...
February 1, 2003
Getting the Eagle’s Attention Without Tweaking its Beak
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...
February 1, 2003
YO, Canada! A Wake-Up Call for Y’All Up There
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...
February 1, 2003
Romanow – A Defence of Public Health Care, But Is There a Map for the Road Ahead?
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...
February 1, 2003
Le défi de la santé dans un contexte électoral : redonner aux Québécois un système public de santé à la hauteur de leurs attentes
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...
February 1, 2003
L’ « épineuse » question d’André Burelle et le rapport Romanow
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...
February 1, 2003
He Said, She Said: The Debate on Vertical Fiscal Imbalance and Federal Health-Care Funding
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...
February 1, 2003
Health Care as a Commodity
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...
February 1, 2003
The NDP Leadership Challenge – Re-Connecting the Left to the Middle
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...
February 1, 2003
Fighting the Good Fight
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...
February 1, 2003
Dealing with Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sport
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...
February 1, 2003
Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (book excerpt)
“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...
February 1, 2003
Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (book review)
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...
February 1, 2003
The Search for Good Government: Understanding the Paradox of Italian Democracy (book review)
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...
February 1, 2003
Les leçons de la controverse sur la série télévisée “Le Canada : une histoire populaire”
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...
February 1, 2003
Was That Premier Romanow Reporting?
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...
February 1, 2003
The 2002 US Election and Canadian Interests: Ottawa Must Get with the Reality of a Bush-Dominated Washington
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...