Policy Options

My subject is the relationship between Canada’s foreign policy and its domestic agenda, between the way it governs itself at home and the way it projects power and influence...

The last session of Parliament was marked by drama of almost Shakespearean dimensions. Perhaps the most compelling episode, played out in the media in almost salacious detail, was Peter...

Le rejet par la France et les Pays-Bas du nouveau traité cons- titutionnel plonge l’Europe dans une période de crise dont elle sortira peut-é‚tre renforcée mais, pour l’heure, les...

La vérité, disait en juin le président de l’UDF, François Bayrou, « c’est qu’il y a deux France, de plus en plus éloignées l’une de l’autre. Celle de ceux...

On April 25, 1945, the delegations of 50 states gath- ered at San Francisco to attend the ”œUnited Nations Conference on International Organization.” The 282 official delegates ”” 7...

The world has changed over the last 60 years, and the mechanisms established at the end of the Second World War to promote international peace and security are no...

Predictions of the demise of the United Nations are, as Mark Twain characterized reports of his own death, greatly exaggerated. Ambitions for a new world order mediated by American...

The latest chapter in Haiti’s proud but tragic history began shortly after the country celebrated its bicentennial anniversary in February 2004 of its inde- pendence from France, which established...

”œAdapt or perish!” Brigadier Maurice Tugwell In the summer of 1992, a Canadian solider wearing a blue helmet and equipped with a sniper’s rifle engaged and killed armed belligerents...

In this month of September, more than 100 heads of government are to attend UN meetings to discuss organizational reforms. It would take reform of the most massive and...

There seems to be an assumption, throughout most of the discus- sion of international governance issues, that the development of increas- ingly powerful institutions at the interna- tional level...

On June 9, 2005, a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada placed into conflict two of the national sym- bols most cherished by Canadians: the Charter of Rights...

One of the major debates in recent years has been the extent of private funding of medically necessary services. This discussion has been intensified by the recent Supreme Court...

Canadians hardly needed reminding that the Supreme Court’s June 9 decision to strike down the Quebec prohibition on private health insurance for publicly insured services was a landmark judgment....

Friday, May 20. After the first game of my annual soccer sea- son, as I got off the dinner table, it dawned on me that my right knee was...

The styles of politicians are not easily changed. A par- liament notable for the nastiness of its controversy will soon be followed by an election more notable for its...

When I was sworn in as Canada’s deputy minister of finance on September 1, 1985, my colleagues threw a bombshell at me as soon as the words of the...