2025 Budget reflections from the IOG Posted November 11th, 2025
November 11, 2025 Welcome to the IOG’s preliminary reactions to the 2025 Federal Budget. We start first with some reflections…
Sutherland: Canada has a better model for cutting government than Trump’s shutdown theatrics Posted October 31st, 2025
By Allen Sutherland, President and CEO Published on October 21, 2025 in the Ottawa Citizen. The Trump administration’s version of creative destruction…
AI presents potential, and aspects that should give us pause Posted October 24th, 2025
By Rhonda Moore, Executive Director, Science & Innovation Published in the Hill Times on October 20, 2025 Complex technologies—whether AI or the next…
Sutherland: Public service cuts are coming — Here’s how to handle them Posted October 7th, 2025
By Allen Sutherland, President and CEO Published on October 3, 2025 in the Ottawa Citizen. Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe…
How will the 45th Parliament work? Posted September 25th, 2025
By Lori Turnbull, Senior Advisor Published in the Hill Times on September 15, 2025 A functional relationship between the executive…
Salgo: Trump may fire government officials, but in Canada it’s not so easy Posted September 15th, 2025
By Karl Salgo, Associate and Executive Advisor Published in the Ottawa Citizen on September 9, 2025 Legislation has created arms-length agencies and commissions…
Federalism: Co-Management – A comparison of the Three Territories’ Co-Management Models with the Federal Government Posted September 11th, 2025
By Catherine Waters, Director, Learning Design and Evaluation September 10, 2025 The models of co-management in Nunavut, Northwest Territories (NWT),…
Federalism and The Reconciliation Agenda Posted September 10th, 2025
By Catherine Waters, Director, Learning Design and Evaluation September 10, 2025 When Canadian federalism was built, it was based on…
Salgo: Public service cuts — we’ve seen massive reductions before Posted August 16th, 2025
By Karl Salgo, Associate and Executive Advisor Published in the Ottawa Citizen on August 6, 2025 Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin slashed the…