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Is Public Service Delivery Obsolete?

Why competition between civil servants, corporations, and non-profits is good for everyone

This Dear Green Place

Our latest last best hope

Promoting Democracy Abroad

Is it the right time for Canada to take on this file?

Michael Cleland

Michael Cleland is Nexen Executive in Residence for the Canada West Foundation and former president and CEO of the Canadian Gas Association. He is a former assistant deputy minister for energy in the federal government.

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Demand Better

Fixated on energy supply, from wind to oil sands, most policy makers ignore our greenest opportunities May 2013
In 2009, the Ontario government embarked on a bold policy experiment: to transform Ontario’s electric power sector radically, to base it largely on renewable sources such as wind and solar, and to establish a new industry in Ontario based on those technologies. Most Ontarians, probably thinking about it only in passing, likely saw that as a good…