Charles Godfrey

Ian Smillie is Canada’s most knowledgeable expert on foreign aid. In The Charity of Nations: Humanitarian Action in a Calculating World, he joins Larry Minear of Tufts University to produce a donor’s guide to spending our dollars. Smillie tops his previous publications, Patronage or Partnership, Managing for Change and The Alms Bazaar…

The furor over Canadian pharmacare is all about who should be paying for it. While an interesting issue for constitutional experts, perhaps, it leaves blindsided what ought to be the crux of the matter: how much do we pay for our drugs and how effective are they in relation to their cost? Both Ottawa and the provinces should focus their attention on…