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  • Liberal plan runs counter to productivity

    Federal Finance Minister Ralph Goodale recently launched the Liberals’ election campaign with the release of a mini-budget and a refurbished policy platform. The “plan for growth and prosperity” presents the Liberals’ agenda to increase productivity, which is supposed to lead to prosperity for all Canadians. Increased productivity means a more…

  • Education Project

    Our Schools/Our Selves: Summer 2001

    Ontario Students as a Means to the Government’s Ends In high-risk sites like Ontario, traditional forms of liberal education are being replaced by policies mandating teaching and learning activities that are aimed at serving the utilitarian needs of a corporate and globalised marketplace. In effect, educational policy making in the…

  • Trade and Investment Research Project

    The GATS and South Africa’s National Health Act

    A Cautionary Tale Download 341.76 KB40 pages This new study shows how South Africa’s flagship health legislation conflicts with binding commitments the former apartheid regime negotiated under the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).  This trade treaty conflict threatens to undermine the much-needed legislation and, if…

  • November 2005: Low on Energy

    World oil shortage could trigger next major shift in global power My history teacher was an intimidating person. It seemed that there was nothing in his field he did not know. He was a Prussian institution, equipped with a PhD in history, which catapulted him above every other teacher at…

  • In whose hands is our energy policy?

    Energy ministers from across Canada recently met in St. Andrews, N.B. Media coverage of the meeting noted that the agenda included golf and a lobster dinner. Fair enough – the ministers are entitled to some rest and relaxation. But what really caught my attention was that the gala event was…

  • Unions are still our best hope

    When it comes to workers and unions there is good and bad news. The good news is that polls show that Canadians’ approval of unions is increasing. Most Canadians think that unions make a positive contribution to society and overall prosperity. And many workers would join a union if given…

  • September 2005: The Myth of Canada’s Anti-BMD Decision

    Canada’s “no” to U.S. missile defense was really a hearty “yes” It was just over a year ago, on August 5, 2004, in the epicentre of Canada’s sacrosanct summer holidays, that the Canadian government ever-so-quietly initiated a major change to the NORAD agreement to add “missile defense” functions to the…

  • Is globalization losing momentum?

    Canadians have been told for years by politicians and business leaders that we have no choice but to adjust to the dictates of economic globalization. In Canada, this has been used to push for closer integration with the U.S., a less active government, and the abandonment of a social agenda.…

  • June 2005: A Very Nasty Piece of Legislation

    Bill C-28, if passed, will expose food supply to more carcinogens With all eyes on the Gomery Inquiry, the Martin government was trying before an election was called to sneak a very nasty piece of legislation through Parliament. Bill C-28, an Act to Amend the Food and Drugs Act, would…

  • Scandal, politics and democracy

    At one level the current parliamentary furor is partisan politics at its worst.  Stephen Harper is taking advantage of the scandal to boost the fortunes of the Conservatives while Paul Martin clings to power by promoting a budget not of the Liberals own making.  These theatrics in Ottawa are diverting…

  • May 2005: The U.S. in the New Economic World Order

    U.S. can’t keep relying on other countries to pay for its imperial excesses Empires collapse usually due to a combination of military overreach and economic weakness, and, judged by these criteria, the U.S. imperial order seems headed for an imminent fall. Washington’s occupation of Iraq has been a disaster. Even…

  • New CCPA report makes the case against more corporate tax cuts

    CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT OTTAWA—Despite outraged business and media reaction to the NDP’s demand for rescinding a new round of corporate tax cuts in return for supporting the Liberal government’s 2005 Budget, a strong case can be made that further reductions in corporate taxes are unjustified. In…