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After the 2008 financial crisis, Canada was recognized as having developed a strong framework for financial regulation that enabled it to avoid the mortgage crisis that wreaked havoc in the United States and Europe. While Canada weathered the 2008 financial crisis better than most other wealthy, industrialized democracies, the reform process in the aftermath of […]

Canada currently has no comprehensive national legislation protecting the rights of people with disabilities to participate in education, work and daily activities. This is particularly concerning since Canadian youth with developmental disabilities have poorer health, lower educational achievement, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. Federal leadership is needed to […]

In the 1980s Canada departed from its uniquely multilateral focus on trade policy and embraced bilateralism. It made sense at the time. The Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations was proceeding very slowly given its complexity and large number of participating countries. Since Canada’s main objective within each multilateral round was to secure better access […]

Ever since it took office last year, the Trudeau government has been on the horns of a dilemma over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the 12 nation trade agreement it inherited from the Conservatives. The Liberals know that if the TPP goes ahead, Canada has to be part of it. It would be unthinkable to have to […]

Over the past decade, the federal government has played a prominent role in funding provincial and municipal infrastructure projects. From 2000 to 2015, the federal government contributed $20.3 billion to such projects. Where did all that money go? Did all of the money go to the big cities to fund public transit projects? Were smaller […]