Opinion

May 11, 2012

Healthcare panelists ask: has the federal government abandoned its role?

Ottawa – The health care debate has evolved since the publication of The Canada We Want in 2020, prompting a…
May 10, 2012

Opinion: We can save money and improve health care

Ontario needs to find $2 billion in annual health care savings. Provincial premiers and health care stakeholders had been gearing…
May 6, 2012

Issues: Securing our health system for the future

The debate in health is far from where we expected it to be when we started work on The Canada…
April 25, 2012

Opinion: Whither the health debate?

The current federal health accord expires in 2014. Most expected that, by now, we would be entering a period of…
April 12, 2012

Panelists share their views on Asia: opportunities abound, but Canada is way behind

Ottawa – Canada must move aggressively to meet the Asia challenge, according to an expert panel organized by Canada 2020.…
April 11, 2012

Opinion: Yuen Pau Woo urges Canada to leap ahead in Asia

Canada is back in the game in Asia. With two recent visits by Prime Minister Harper (to China, Thailand, Korea,…
April 6, 2012

Opinion: Can a Small Change Budget Transform Canada’s Economy?

The federal Budget thus far seems to be known most for eliminating the penny, a small change initiative if there…
April 3, 2012

Issues: Rising to meet the Asia challenge

Asia’s growing importance is undisputed. It is not only in economic, but also in cultural and political/security spheres, that the…
March 30, 2012

Opinion: Dominic Barton urges a new Asia strategy for Canada

For the past 250 years, Canada’s deep and mutually beneficial economic links with its superpower neighbour to the south have…
March 28, 2012

Opinion: Eugene Lang on Ontario’s austerity budget with heart

On Tuesday the Liberal government tabled its long-awaited budget to wrestle the province’s eye-watering deficit to the ground and avert…
March 20, 2012

Record breaking temperatures in Ottawa as panelists discuss ways to curb carbon emissions

Ottawa – Canada needs a comprehensive strategy for reducing carbon emissions but there is no clear consensus on how to…
March 19, 2012

Opinion: Eugene Lang asks why the timing is never right for action on climate

Ten years ago, a very senior federal deputy minister told me that implementing Canada’s Kyoto Protocol target to reduce our…
March 19, 2012

Opinion: Ian Mallory’s proposals for helping the environment without hurting the economy

As the world struggles to restrict carbon emissions into the atmosphere, Canada stands out. Although many countries emit larger absolute…
March 5, 2012

Issues: Carbon and Energy

Canada is one of the highest per capita carbon dioxide emitters in the world. We are likely to increase, significantly,…
March 5, 2012

Opinion: Peter Nicholson calls for more public sector innovation

The Drummond report on Ontario’s fiscal woes came mixed with a visionary challenge to make Ontario “a province that provides…
February 24, 2012

Standing room only as panelists debate innovation and productivity

Ottawa – Productivity is down, innovation is lagging, and staying the course does not bode well for Canada’s future. Over…
February 24, 2012

Opinion: Lawson Hunter discusses the need to reset the regulatory agenda

Independent body needed to review rules In February, Ottawa will almost certainly reveal long-awaited cuts across government departments. It will…
February 23, 2012

Opinion: The free-market hasn’t delivered on productivity, writes Jim Stanford

In the initial postwar decades, Canada’s economy experienced a historic leap forward, qualitatively and quantitatively. Strong business investment, rapid industrialization,…
February 22, 2012

Opinion: Canada lags badly in innovation and productivity, writes Kevin Lynch

At the recent Davos World Economic Forum gathering, the Harvard Business School trumpeted a multi-year project on U.S. competitiveness, itself…
February 16, 2012

Opinion: Skilled trades deficit colliding with energy boom

For many years we have been told Canada faces an acute “skills mismatch,” where the economy has lots of great…
February 15, 2012

Issues: Productivity and Innovation

Productivity growth is essential to maintaining, or increasing, our standard of living. It is especially critical at the present time,…
January 20, 2012

Capacity crowd attend income inequality panel

Ottawa  – The  gap between rich and poor is at a record high, according to a new global economic study,…
January 19, 2012

Income inequality: a top global risk

Inequality of income is one of the hot button issues of our time. 2011 saw the rise of the Occupy…
January 10, 2012

Corak: Is the U.S. Still a ‘Land of Opportunity’?

BY: Miles Corak, University of Ottawa. Corak examines economic mobility in the US vs. Canada. Canada is still more economically…
December 27, 2011

Obama’s courting the youth vote with Keystone politics

BY: Eugene Lang, Canada 2020. President Barack Obama has punted a controversial decision on the Keystone XL pipeline — which…
November 25, 2011

Needed: Innovative Thinking on Innovation

The facts about poor Canadian productivity and innovation performance are easy to rhyme off. The discussion about how to address…
November 24, 2011

Five challenges we can’t ignore

BY: Diana Carney and Eugene Lang, Canada 2020. Ottawa – Today, Canada faces challenges and opportunities that are quite unprecedented…
March 29, 2011

Demont: Politics as Analogy

The first major promise of the 2011 federal campaign is one that no one really believes will come to fruition…
February 25, 2011

Demont: Democracy‘s Unintended Outcome

As the Arab world explodes in a paroxysm of protest and demands for democracy, distant history holds a warning as…
November 16, 2010

Eric Morse: ‘Who Watches the Watchdog?’ – Journalism and Foreign Policy

Eric Morse, Vice-Chair, Strategic Studies Committee, Royal Canadian Military Institute (RCMI) delivered the following speech to the Queen’s University Foreign Policy Conference, November…
September 30, 2010

DeMont: Politics of Simple Things

by Phil DeMont Even as the controversy rages over the federal government’s plan to kill off the mandatory long-form census,…
July 16, 2010

Debating in the Dark Ages

by Phil DeMont Public policy thrives upon pointed discussion and different opinions. However, every once in a while comes a…
June 1, 2010

David Cameron and the end of ideology

by Phil DeMont As David Cameron settles in as the United Kingdom’s new Prime Minster, he heads up a British…
June 22, 2009

Buy-buy Nortel, Bye-bye Canadian R&D spending

The international competition for R&D is extreme (source). China’s R&D spending has grown by 22 per cent a year since…
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