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March 1, 2005

Present at the creation – Policy Options, 25 years on

The first page of the first issue of Policy Options began: ”œThe purpose of this magazine is to assist Canadian thought about all aspects of public policy. The purpose of...

Tom Kent
March 1, 2005

Politics since 1980: a little humility would have gone a long way

A reflection on the politics of the last quarter-century suggests that we misinterpret large parts of our history, and that misinterpretation contributes broad- ly to political parties and stratagems...

Hugh Segal
March 1, 2005

The left: from hope to sneers in only 25 years

”œIn any campaign, the first stronghold you must occupy, is your Enemy’s consciousness.” Felix Dzerzhinsky Sometime around 1980, in most of the democracies, the impossible happened. Radical conservatives donned...

Robin V. Sears
March 1, 2005

The right: on the outside looking in

”œWell, welcome to the 1980s!” declared Pierre Trudeau the night of February 18, 1980. The very next month Canada got itself a brand new policy magazine to go with...

William Watson
March 1, 2005

Finishing what we started: Canadian trade and economic policy 25 years backward and forward

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn...

Michael Hart, Bill Dymond
March 1, 2005

Productivity and innovation in Canada: a case of governance failure

We need a fountain of youth to dissolve the social arteriosclerotic structures in the body politic. C.P. Kindleberger Productivity growth and innovation are key drivers of growth in living...

Gilles Paquet
March 1, 2005

“E-the-people”: reflections on citizen power in the information era

Citizens as consumers, as producers, and as political actors are emerging as the principal beneficiaries of the knowledge-based era (KBE). The tandem of information empowerment and the democratization of...

Thomas J. Courchene
  • Politics
March 1, 2005

The public service: the glue is coming unstuck

(This article has been translated into French.) Think back to 1980. Canada was still a relatively closed economy; the regional trade agreement with the United States and Mexico was years...

Donald J. Savoie
March 1, 2005

The arts and culture as new engines of economic and social development

All around the world, the intrinsic virtues and the impact of culture on individual and community development are being questioned, studied, measured and, hopefully, rediscovered. There is a keen...

Simon Brault
March 1, 2005

Denatality, aging and migration: the challenges of changing demographics

A population is a living entity that is constantly changing: newcomers join the population, others leave or die, everyone gets older, families form and break up, and each person’s...

Jacques Henripin
March 1, 2005

The environment: from local to global in a cosmic blink of 25 years

Twenty-five years in the life of Planet Earth is a heartbeat; a cosmic blink of an eye. For the bulk of the 3.6 billion-year history of our planet, humanity...

Elizabeth May
March 1, 2005

Back to the future: global security from 1980 to 2030

”œIf I knew where I were going to die,” remarked an old man, ”œI would never go there.” There is a grain of wisdom in this apocryphal story. Knowing...

Janice Gross Stein
March 1, 2005

Equality of opportunity and inequality across the generations: challenges ahead

In thinking about the Canadian welfare state, about past accomplishments and future challenges, I would like to begin by borrowing a few pages from the work of Amartya Sen,...

Miles Corak
March 1, 2005

Plus ça change…intergovernmental relations then and now

In 1972, I published Federal-Provincial Diplomacy: The Making of Recent Policy in Canada. It explored the dynamics of intergovernmental relations as they played out through the 1960s, on issues...

Richard Simeon
March 1, 2005

The challenge of diversity in Canada and Quebec

”œThe world is among us, within us and with us. It is no longer possible to see it as some distant notion, exotic or episodic, to keep it in...

Micheline Labelle

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