Policy Options

POLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Layton, thank you for doing this. One day in January you woke up and you had the balance of power. How do you feel about that?...

Dans son discours de Québec en décembre 2005 et dans dif- férentes déclarations par la suite, Stephen Harper s’est engagé aÌ€ « encadrer le pouvoir fédéral de dépenser »....

My core argument in the following essay is that the contemporary Canadian federal state is poorly aligned with the economic challenges and opportunities of globalization. To address this lack...

While it is commonplace to assert that needs to make the transition from a resource-based economy and society to a knowledge-based economy and society, the dramatic rise of China...

Twenty-five years after its adoption, we can now appreciate how much the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms has influenced Canada’s constitution- al evolution. Ironically, while the Charter pushed...

For more than a year, the machinery of executive federalism has been operating at full blast, trying to reconcile conflicting positions about the ”œfiscal imbalance” and, more specifically, the...

Le gouvernement fédéral pourrait difficilement prétendre pratiquer un fédéralisme d’ouverture s’il ne corrigeait pas le déséquilibre fiscal. Lors de la dernié€re campagne électorale, le Parti conservateur de Stephen Harper...

On December 19, 2005, Conservative leader Stephen Harper made a lunch-hour campaign stop in Quebec City to outline his vision for the future of Canadian federalism and Canada-Quebec relations....

Avec la parution, lors du budget fédéral 2006, du document intitul遠Rétablir l’équilibre fiscal au Canada, le gouvernement fédéral a reconnu l’existence d’un déséquilibre fiscal dans la fédération canadienne. Il...

Péréquation et déséquilibre fiscal sont deux sujets financiers largement abordés dans le débat public canadien et ce sont aussi deux questions particulié€rement techniques. Il en découle que ces concepts...

In the January 2006 leaders’ debate, Prime Minister Paul Martin stunned the country with his pledge that if reelected, the Liberal Party’s first order of business would be to...

In the aftermath of Maher Arar’s harrowing ordeal of wrongful detention and torture, Justice Dennis O’Connor has provided an enormous service to Canadians by head- ing a commission of...

Sparking heated debates in living rooms, boardrooms and budget lock-ups, little generates more controversy than questions about what health care we want and need, what we can afford and...

Le mouvement syndical et progressiste fait face, depuis quelque temps déjaÌ€, aÌ€ une offensive orchestrée par une intelli- gentsia néolibérale qui pré‚che une profonde remise en question du mo-...

Under normal circumstances, the Brookings Institution would have had cause for celebration: one of its publications was attracting considerable exposure throughout the United States and had, within months of...

In 1972, to almost universal astonishment, Richard M. Nixon became the first American presi- dent to visit the People’s Republic of China. Twenty years later, on his last visit...

Life in resource-rich western Canada has its share of ups and downs. Tucked away in the farflung northwestern corner of the country, a far-too-common economic drama is playing out....