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What Were WE Thinking?
The Prime Minister has already given us the right answer on the WE debacle: he ought to have recused. At least, that looks like the right answer. As other commentators have noted, we don’t really know precisely, or even roughly, how this...
Morneau’s Snapshot
In the Westminster system, the practice of preparing an annual budget of the nation’s finances is attributed to William Pitt the Younger. This prodigy, prime minister at 24, vastly reformed Britain’s chaotic public finances in the late...
National Security Post-COVID: Part 2
By Bill James, Senior Advisor--This is the Part 2 of a two-part commentary on the need for a broad review of Canada's evolving security risks. Read Part 1 here. Should, for example, Canada continue to be indifferent as to which countries...
National Security Post-COVID: Part 1
By Bill James, Senior Advisor --- Does COVID-19 illustrate the need to reform Canadian economic policy and industrial strategy to strengthen national security? The most fundamental obligation of a national government is to protect the...
Online Hate and Good Governance
Honda. Levi’s. Lululemon. MEC. Unilever. All of these brands have something in common: they are united as part of the “Hit Pause on Hate” campaign and have committed to boycott their paid Facebook advertising until the social media giant...
The Perpetual Reign of Vladimir Putin
Barring some unlikely turn of events, Vladimir Putin seems poised, courtesy of thinly veiled constitutional manipulations, to solidify his perpetual grasp on power in Russia. And, despite an element of courageous (and sometimes...