Policy Options

Thank you very much for the opportunity to be with you. I am very pleased that the Perimeter Institute is in Canada. This is a wonderful accomplishment of which...

This month we’ve assembled a cover package that reflects change and continuity in Canada’s provinces. Change has come, somewhat unexpectedly, to Alberta, where Alison Redford was the surprise winner...

In a setting that defines innovation — the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics located in Waterloo’s high-tech community — a recent summit on innovation found near-universal agreement that Canada...

There’s a fresh wind blowing across Alberta politics this fall, but the most surprising things about Premier Alison Redford have nothing to do with her gender. While a female...

In the wee hours of the morning on October 2, 2011, Alison Redford won a surprise victory in the leadership race to succeed Ed Stelmach as leader of the...

Elections are rarely exercises in exorcism. But two political ghosts repeatedly hauled out to frighten voters and small children were finally banished by Ontario voters. The Liberals tried one...

The defeat of the HST in British Columbia in the August 2011 referendum was a unique and remarkable event in the history of policy making in Canada. The people...

In office as premier of Saskatchewan since November 2007, Brad Wall has become one of the most popular provincial politicians of his generation. According to a Vision Critical &...

Avec la crise des finances publiques américaine, et celle bien différente qui secoue l’Europe, on constate combien l’opinion publique est une composante importante autant du problème que de la...

Canada and the United States enjoy an economic relationship, and both countries are by far each other’s largest trading partner. Canada and the US have been working on the...

On October 18, US ambassador David Jacobson gave a remarkable speech to the Canadian Club of Ottawa, principally on trade and transportation issues. Ambassador Jacobson tried to moderate and...

The famous aphorism of the poet Robert Frost is that “good fences make good neighbours.” Yes, but… Do longer, higher, barbed wire, electrified, security patrolled and access-controlled fences make...

Canada’s law governing foreign investment, the Investment Canada Act (ICA), has come under increased scrutiny since the government’s review of BHP Billiton’s proposed acquisition of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan in late...

History may not repeat itself but sometimes it rhymes. A hundred years ago, Britain was contending with the rising new powers — Russia, United States, Japan and, especially, the...

Ten months into my posting as a foreign service officer to Kandahar, I was on a helicopter with American soldiers of the 82 Airborne on the way to the...

The term Dutch disease refers to the phenomenon whereby a country’s specialization in the exploitation and export of natural resources leads to the appreciation of its currency and the...

Since Confederation, discussions about Senate reform have been a large part of political discourse in Canada. In fact, “the faults, merits, and possible alteration of the Senate were discussed even...

Unlike other industrialized countries, Canada does not have a national securities regulator. The local nature of Canadian capital markets has led the courts to repeatedly approve and recognize provincial...

Chaque année, le Conseil national du bien-être social publie des données sur les revenus d’aide sociale dans les provinces et territoires. Ces revenus tiennent compte de l’aide sociale mais...