Policy Options

En politique étrangé€re, tout comme en politique intérieure, les choix que nous faisons reflé€tent les valeurs qui nous tiennent aÌ€ cœur. Les deux idées dont j’ai l’intention de vous...

A short while ago the impending election was seen as a sizeable yawn. But then the sponsorship scandal turned into a puff of smoke the expectation that Paul Martin...

New Democrats revel in black humour. It’s their armour against the endless electoral blows they endure. Doubling the vote in a campaign wins an ironic toast as a moral victory...

It may have been obvious that the division of conserva- tives into Alliance and Progressive Conservative factions was a recipe for permanent Liberal governments, but it still took great...

Election turnouts are seen as an important yardstick for measuring the health of the democratic process of the state. Over the past few decades declines in voter turnout in...

The first Canadian election that I paid any real attention to was the 1980 snap election that brought Pierre Trudeau back to power. I was 12 years old, living...

In the 10 years of NAFTA, trade has essentially doubled in volume; financial flows among the three countries have also grown exponentially; and NAFTA has in a sense transformed...

Current and future efforts toward North American inte- gration rest on the three linked issues of migration, trade and security. An integral and critical component of integration is the...

The Canadian discourse on our place in North America had been slow to emerge in the post-NAFTA decade. Stimulated by the concerns raised by the events of September 11,...

North America contains the world’s largest integrat- ed energy market, whose importance and benefits few people recognize. In 2003, four Canadian provinces were net importers of US electricity, but...

In just one decade under NAFTA, trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico has nearly tripled ”” growing more than twice as fast as the three countries’ trade...

On the trade front, NAFTA has been a distinct success. Before NAFTA, Canada was already highly dependent on the US for trade (74.4 percent of Canada’s 1990 trade was...

Recent proposals that have been put forward to ”œdeepen” North American integration ignore the role of an important actor, civil society, in a future North America. Proposals like those...

We are entering a time of foreign policy review. It is entirely understandable that a new prime minister and a new government would want to assess where we are...

US scholar Robert Reich once observed that ”œin the life of a nation few ideas are more dangerous than good solutions to the wrong problems.” Canadian policy toward the...

Canada and the United States are approaching a milestone in their bilateral relations. By the end of the year, each country will have a new government. Both may have...

The American moralist Ralph Waldo Emerson advised that ”œVirtue is its own reward,” a sentiment heartily endorsed by many Canadians. At its best, Canadian moralizing reflects a generous value...

”œLaws are like sausages: it’s better not to see them being made.” Otto von Bismarck’s concern about the lawmaking process would have presumably been heightened further had he been...

Au printemps 2003, en compa- gnie de l’ancien ministre péquiste Joseph Facal et du prési- dent de l’ADQ Guy Laforest, j’ai eu le privilé€ge dans ces pages d’analyser les...

La relation entre le milieu de la recherche universitaire en sciences sociales et le monde des politiques publiques s’est consi- dérablement transformée au Canada au cours des dernié€res années....

Back in the 1980s, almost a quar- ter-century after I had aban- doned a fledgling career in the staff of the Ontario NDP for the securi- ty and marginal...

Tout récemment, j’étais invité aÌ€ la réunion annuelle de la société conservatrice Civitas, ouÌ€ j’ai prononcé une allocution que j’avais inti- tulée « Minority Squared : Anglophone et libéral...