Health care is about sharing risk. Federalism in Canada should be too.
February 22, 2017
Universal health care in Canada is strongly attached to Canadian values such as equity, fairness and solidarity. Read More
February 22, 2017
Universal health care in Canada is strongly attached to Canadian values such as equity, fairness and solidarity. Read More
February 14, 2017
Technology is disrupting many economic sectors, from transportation to media – and the energy sector is not immune. Read More
February 7, 2017
On 1 February, the federal government announced it was no longer pursuing immediate changes to Canada’s voting system arguing that no “clear preference for a new electoral system, let alone a consensus” had emerged from the past year’s consultations. Read More
January 25, 2017
Governments are facing a crisis of public confidence across the western world. It’s a crisis that played an important role in political upheavals over the last year. Read More
January 17, 2017
The surprise election of Donald Trump as US President has left journalists scrambling for an explanation. Read More
December 20, 2016
Canada’s federal and provincial governments failed to reach a long-term agreement on health care funding in Ottawa yesterday. Time will tell whether this failure represents an impasse, or just one of many rounds of negotiation to arrive at a mutually agreeable settlement. Read More
December 19, 2016
As we approach Canada’s 150th anniversary, we can take pride in how far we’ve come as a country. We’ve connected a vast, sprawling and culturally diverse territory into a strong, inclusive and vibrant country and one of the world’s most prosperous and multicultural nations. Read More
December 5, 2016
Provincial and Territorial Premiers have called on the Prime Minister for a meeting dedicated to the issue of health care funding. The call comes against the backdrop of federal plans to decrease the growth rate of federal health transfers to the provinces. Without federal action, the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) funding escalator will fall to the 3 per cent floor currently set out in federal legislation starting next year. Read More
October 4, 2016
Second only to deciding which electoral system Canada should use, the question of whether a referendum should be required to ratify whatever decision it reaches has emerged as perhaps the most important choice confronting Parliament’s Special Committee on Electoral Reform.
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August 4, 2016
The federal government has announced the long-awaited launch of a national inquiry into violence against Indigenous women and girls. Read More
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