There shall be One Parliament for Canada, consisting of the Queen, an Upper House styled the Senate, and the House of Commons. — Constitution Act, 1867, section 17
When the Forty-Fifth Parliament is very soon inaugurated, the ceremony will be held in the Senate of Canada, now temporarily ensconced in a building that was once a bustling railway station and…
Yuen Pau Woo
Yuen Pau Woo is an independent senator representing British Columbia. Previously, he was president and chief executive officer of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
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But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.—Arthur Miller
It would be tempting to interpret the Arthur Miller classic The Crucible as a parable about those who believe in witches and those who…
The study of Canadian foreign policy is in disarray. That is pretty much the conclusion Brian Bow and Andrea Lane reach in Canadian Foreign Policy: Reflections on a Field in Transition, their edited volume on what they describe as an academic discipline — known by the initials CFP — that has “been crumbling for twenty years or more but manages to survive in some form.”
It may well be that the practice of Canadian foreign policy is also in…
Decline of the Downtown Elite?
Canada’s old leaders lost power by ignoring new realities, argues this lively polemic May 2013
Fortune favours those who recognize major shifts in society ahead of others and act on them. No wonder there is an army of pundits and prognosticators who promote their version of the next big thing. The stakes can be very high. In Canada, we have only to think of Blackberry underestimating the importance of consumer applications for…