The federal role must therefore be to show leadership by bringing the provinces together to develop a national plan, leveraging investment, and supporting a long-term transition through targeted innovation, research, development and commercialization of new technologies.
The task for those wishing to move the issue forward, in Canada or internationally, is on the one hand to keep up the pressure from movements, and on the other hand to get creative in leveraging strategically astute national governments and their negotiators at the UN process.
If educational quality is to retain its meaning, one has to face the fact that increasing enrolment in advanced education has inherent limits.
Whenever we’re talking about labour market strategies and good jobs, it’s important to keep in mind that for some workers there are systemic barriers that need to be addressed.
The real question to be asked is whether the Fund is getting a good return for Canadians to support pensions down the road, and perhaps even to provide improved benefits or lower premiums if returns are high.
Policing is only one node in a judicial system that was not conceived as a mode of justice for Aboriginal peoples and black peoples in the Americas.
It is, to say the least, rare for a business-dominated advisory panel to the Harper government to suggest that targeted spending programs are more efficient than tax cuts.
If the Justice Department’s own criminal law policy section has been so diminished that it can only achieve the loyal execution of established policy but lacks the resources to carefully and intelligently develop new policy, then it is only doing half its job.
Energy efficiency is an obvious solution because it is quick, portable, abundant, and cheap. Unlike pipelines that take years to build, energy efficiency efforts can be ramped up within months.
