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The Munk Leaders’ Debate: Opportunity Missed
- Analysis
- September 30, 2015
The Munk Leaders’ Debate was supposed to be about foreign policy, but at many times it was really about a three-man horse race. That race was about which progressive horse could finish first, or whether the conservative horse would end up winning by solidifying his base with the fear of terrorists and Putin. Only in
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When we should, and shouldn’t, revoke citizenship
- Analysis
- September 30, 2015
The long federal election campaign has been knocked off course at various stages by the unexpected: revelations from the Duffy trial; the accelerating Syrian refugee crisis; the niqab issue in citizenship ceremonies; and now, courtesy of Monday night’s Munk debate on foreign policy, the issue of the revocation of Canadian citizenship. That issue, introduced by
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Canada’s Military Spending Is Now Less than Half of NATO’s Target
- Analysis
- September 24, 2015
Last year I blogged about the decline in Canadian military spending as a percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The most recent figures at that time were for 2013. I noted that defence spending had fallen to 1.00 percent of GDP—down from 1.13 percent in 2006, when the Harper government entered office. In 2015, only
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Whose Views? Climate Change Governance and the Politics of Expertise
- Analysis
- September 22, 2015
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has long been regarded as the most authoritative guide to the status of knowledge about climate change. Read any report by a government, international organization, business group or NGO and they almost always start by citing the IPCC to justify action on climate change – both whether
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