Let’s improve our understanding of how we nominate candidates, and pass S-283
Bill S-283 is a modest step to stop the downward trajectory in Canada’s international standings in gender and diverse political representation.
Canada can solve its productivity ‘emergency’—we just need politicians on board
Governments have other options, like scrapping interprovincial trade barriers and allowing allowing foreign competition.
Hogue inquiry prompts questions for Canada’s spy agency
Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s foreign interference inquiry has enlightened us on the failings of our security apparatus and its inability to engage constructively with Canadians.
Waiting for justice: why you need to know Métis residential school survivors of Île-à-la-Crosse
Every single public administrator and elected official could choose to acknowledge these survivors and properly compensate them. But they have not.
Budget capital gains reform will boost investment
Collecting more revenue from the largest gains on sales of existing assets while offering greater incentives to create new assets is a smart economic strategy.
Does Canada really need the CF-35 Joint Strike Fighter?
With Trudeau’s Liberals dropping in the polls, maybe it is not too late to bring out their old campaign promise to axe the F-35 contract if elected again?
Can’t Buy My Silence on the Hill: restricting the abusive use of NDAs
Senator Marilou McPhedran’s Bill S-261 would prevent public money from being used to generate or enforce a non-disclosure agreement unless specifically requested by a victim.
Canada urgently needs an equitable immigration system
It is important that we prioritize and support undocumented people from marginalized backgrounds instead of excluding them with unfair requirements.
A doomsday scenario in Sudan as war rages in parts of Africa
Eleven countries out of 54, containing more than a quarter of Africa’s population, are at war, and mostly they are at war with themselves.
Beware of the ‘everything-is-broken’ crowd
Mark Carney recently reminded us that the slogan ‘Britain is broken’ led to that country’s exit from the European Union. Brexiteers promised what he called ‘Singapore on the Thames.’ Instead, they made ‘Argentina on the Channel.’
