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The Treaties

Ottawa negotiated in bad faith

Making a Scene

Experimental film is ready for its close-up

A More Sentimental Man

Michael Ondaatje’s late style

David Laidler

David Laidler is Fellow in Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. He and his co-author, William Robson, won the Donner Prize in 2004 for Two Percent Target: Canadian Monetary Policy Since 1991 (C.D. Howe Institute, 2004).

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David Laidler

NAMU and the Neoliberals

Politics and history help explain Canada’s resistanceto monetary union with the United States June 2006
North American Monetary Union—NAMU—is not being much discussed right now, but at the turn of the millennium its Canadian advocates were making media headlines. They could not quite agree about what was to replace Canada’s flexible exchange rate, however. A new currency altogether, however. A new currency altogether, with a new supranational central bank to go with it on the European…