Policy Options

Everything’s coming up roses, it seems. In early September, the Bank of Canada increased its economic forecast for the second half of the year. Not only has the recession...

POLICY OPTIONS: Mr. Layton, thanks for doing this. By the time this interview is published in early October, we’re either going to be into an election or we’re still...

There’s no doubt about it. Canadian don’t want a fall election. And this time they really mean it. Nearly three Canadians in four, 72.6 percent, do not want a...

It is amazing how the passage of time changes perceptions. For those of us coming of age and political awareness in the Canada of the 1960s, Canada’s 10 decade...

The Pearson-led Liberals of the 1960s could not win a parliamentary majority. In four years the two minority parliaments of L.B. Pearson’s government nevertheless transformed Canada. It did more...

Canadian pundits of a certain age get misty-eyed recalling the minority governments of the 1960s and 1970s. They inveigh against the current generation of politicians for failing to recreate...

En 1969, le Parlement canadien adoptait la Loi sur les langues officielles. Dans un pays au sein duquel l’anglais prédominait à l’extérieur du Québec, cette loi allait profondément changer...

Canada faces several economic challenges over the coming years, and most of the rich, developed economies face broadly similar ones. Though Canada is better positioned than most countries to...

Finding ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a global and intergenerational challenge that tests our capacity to realize a dramatically different future, one where we will adapt...

Is there such a thing as a North American Community, a specific idea of North America? Ronald Reagan thought so. He made a “North American Accord” part of his...

The television business is about to undergo a transformation as radical as the metamorphosis of the telecommunications business over the past 15 years; a period that saw the business...

Canada is moving toward a creative economy. This trajectory was convincingly illustrated most recently in Ontario in the Creative Age, a report written by the Martin Prosperity Institute for...

With the stunning collapse of Mario Dumont’s Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), Quebec is reverting to its traditional two-party political system. The Liberals and the Parti Québécois again confront...

Lors de la dernière campagne électorale canadienne, Jean Charest avait écrit à tous les chefs de partis, afin de faire valoir les attentes du Québec face au prochain gouvernement...