‘All about’ NATO: bulk of feds’ $5.4-billion spending request boosts defence programs
The $2.2-billion request for defence spending is ‘all tied’ to meeting NATO’s defence spending target, says Canadian Global Affairs Institute’s Craig Stone, but Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s Christopher Coates says it should be seen as ‘long overdue’ modernization of the Armed Forces.
Canada faces ‘an emergency of extraordinary proportions’ with Trump, say foreign affairs and trade experts
U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent rant on X about the bridge linking Windsor, Ont., to Detroit, Mich., augurs badly for the upcoming review of North America’s trade pact, says international trade lawyer Lawrence Herman.
Building a more innovative Canadian economy won’t be easy, but it will be worth it
We are living through one of those periods in human history where change and the tensions from change can overwhelm. Coping with change—with creative destruction—can be hugely rewarding. But getting policy right is the challenge.
Liberals see path forward for budget bill, but Conservatives still have ‘huge concerns’ with cabinet’s ‘regulatory sandbox’
Conservatives have concerns about a clause buried in Bill C-15 that grants cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or firm from nearly any federal law—excluding the Criminal Code—for up to six years.
Bill C-15 is one of the biggest threats yet to Canada’s rule of law
The omnibus budget bill gives unprecedented power to federal ministers to exempt virtually any entity from all federal laws and regulations—except the Criminal Code.
Ministers could exempt businesses from laws within ‘regulatory sandbox’ outlined in budget bill
Treasury Board Secretariat official Jenelle Power said the bill would not allow ministers to exempt people or businesses from law for ‘broad policy purposes,’ and there are ‘strict limitations’ to such legal exceptions, including time limits.
Bringing investment banking rigor to Ottawa
Ministers must be equipped to interrogate advice with the same skepticism, financial scrutiny, and risk discipline that any serious investor would demand before committing billions of dollars of capital.
Canada’s largest pension manager ‘backsliding’ on climate, risks being unable to pay out pensions: report
Last year, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board invested $7.1-billion in new fossil fuel assets and ‘quietly removed’ its public net-zero commitment, which Senator Rosa Galvez says means ‘Canadian pensions are gambling with the retirement of millions of Canadians.’
Three measures to tackle ‘wicked’ health policy problems
With spending projections increasing while patients struggle to access care, it is well past time to tackle our health care problems.
‘Not a chance’: Green Leader May says she can’t support budget omnibus bill without major changes, but NDP skeptical
Green Leader Elizabeth May says the prime minister’s ‘word means nothing,’ but isn’t closing the door on co-operating with the progressive opposition to advance the government’s ecological agenda.
