Central Government Policies

Parliamentary ombudsmen are appointed to investigate citizens' complaints and to provide checks on government administrative activity. In Canada, t...

Canada at the WTO is the first book devoted to exploring the relationship between the World Trade Organization's dispute settlement process and Can...

Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as...

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but t...

Governance and Public Policy in Canada lays the foundation for a systematic analysis of policy developments, shaped as they are by multiple players...

Maxwell Yalden began his career in the Department of External Affairs; he was posted to Moscow and Paris, and later as ambassador to Belguim. As Ca...

Since the 1990s, Canadian policy prescriptions for immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity have equated globalization with global mark...

For forty years, historians have argued that early twentieth-century provincial governments in Canada were easily manipulated by the industrialists...

America is entering a new age of economic discord, warns Robert E. Kuenne. In addition to a panoply of other structural economic troubles, the nati...

The commonly held view that the interests of American business dominated U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean during the early part of this century...

Electricity in Ontario has historically been generated from hydroelectriciy, coal, and nuclear power. Amidst aging infrastructure and diminishing c...

Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national de...

The commonly held view that the interests of American business dominated U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean during the early part of this century...

Public policy advocates routinely assert that “research has shown” a particular policy to be desirable. But how reliable is the analysis in the res...