Policy Options

1977-78 The Canadian Condition: A Guide to Research in Public Policy The Institute is a learning body and, accordingly, its reading of the Canadian reality will become more accurate, more...

In 1968, Ronald Ritchie, then an executive at Imperial Oil Ltd, was asked by the federal government to report on the possibility of a new “institute for research on...

Though Gordon Robertson joined the Public Service of Canada in 1941 in the Department of External Affairs he spent most of his career as adviser to four Prime Ministers...

In a career spanning 50 years, Claude Ryan has been, among other things, an advocate for education. Quebec’s most distinguished editorialist, the Leader of the province’s Official Opposition, the...

As readers of this magazine know well, Tom Kent was the founding editor of Policy Options. Before and since he was: a wartime decoder, a newspaper editor, policy secretary...

Michael Pitfield served in the Public Service of Canada from 1959 to 1982, holding a variety of positions, including Deputy Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, and Clerk of...

Monique Jérôme-Forget was President of the IRPP from 1991 to 1998, which makes her the Institute’s longest-serving president. Before that she was Assistant Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare...

Dans un premier article « Le cyber gouvernement : un modèle d’efficience », (Options politiques, mars 2002) nous avons montré comment l’utilisation de la technologie Internet pouvait transformer l’organisation des...

On March 4th of this year the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the main source of public fund- ing for health research in Canada, published guidelines on the scientific...

The Access to Information Act adopted by Parliament in 1982 is intended to give Canadians a qualified right to documents held within federal ministries and agencies. The arguments in...

The restructuring of Ontario’s electricity system, which takes an important step with this month’s market opening, is part of a worldwide evolution. Just ten years ago, the world’s electricity systems...

In ancient Athens, election officials used a rope dusted with red dye to force people from the marketplace to the assembly to vote. People moved in the direction of...

The Kyoto Protocol is an inter- national treaty negotiated in 1997 to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and several other gases which absorb infrared radi- ation and may...

This special issue of Policy Options celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Institute for Research on Public Policy. It reflects on the people our Board of Directors will honour...

Do think-tanks matter? This month, as our use of colour suggests, something special. Thirty years ago ”” April 11, 1972, to be exact ”” the letters patent of a...