Policy Options

J’ai été enchantée de l’invitation de Hugh Segal à vous adresser la parole lors de ce dîner pour souligner le 30 anniversaire de l’Institut de recherche en politiques publiques. J’ai...

On June 7, Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove wrote in the comment pages of The Globe and Mail (where else?) that the New Democratic Party must turn Left....

Les quatre élections partielles du 17 juin dernier au Québec ont fait subir un véritable séisme au système de partis de la province. L’Action démocratique du Québec (ADQ), qui...

Medical savings accounts (MSAs) have caught the attention of health-care reformers in Canada. Both the interim report of the Senate’s Kirby Committee and the report of the Mazankowski Commission...

Over the past 50 years, as geography, demography, consumer choice, business judgement, policy choice and more have rendered the trade and economic ties between Canada and the United States...

National postal systems””or simply Posts””do not draw the critical attention they once did. Better management and reduced government interference have improved their performance and pushed them into the policy...

Clear-cutting, the softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the United States, and disputes between provincial governments and First Nations over natural resource ownership have all recently been grist””or perhaps,...

In the past several decades the call for smaller and more accountable government has been widespread in Canada. In many cases, governments have reacted by privatizing Crown corporations, limiting...

Though short of being universal, there is a reasonably wide- spread view in government, the universities, the press, and even in private radio and television that CBC Television News...

Canadian property rights advocates often wish their favoured rights could be entrenched in the Constitution. I want to suggest that this may be a misplaced desire, not because property...

Canada must soon decide whether to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and join an international attempt to arrest the man-made or ”œanthropogenic” causes of global warming. To ease its economic...

The philosophers and writers of the Enlightenment were the first in modern times to systematically question the notion that political power and privi- lege should be inherited from generation...

Prime Minister: We urge you to write to President Bush. Don’t be angry, be cool””otherwise he won’t read it. Anyway, he already knows you’re annoyed because of softwood, fish...

One of William F. Buckley’s many assets as a proselytizer of conservative ideas has been a sunny good nature, shining through his harshest assessments of the American political scene....