• Education

    Posted on September 21st, 2009

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    The Daycare State: Federal Subsidies for ECE

    The Daycare State: Federal Subsidies for ECE

    While services such as health insurance and pensions have been recognized by the Canadian government as deserving of federal attention and financial assistance, others remain absent from the national agenda. The care and education of young children remains, for the most part, the sole responsibility of parents, who must reconcile the tension between working and raising a child. As part of the ongoing tradition of the welfare state, it is necessary that the federal government recognize this problem and implement a solution modeled on reforms that have benefited Canadians in the past.

  • Governance

    Posted on August 5th, 2009

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    Non-Partisan Senators

    Non-Partisan Senators

    There are eight vacancies in the Senate; there will be four more by year’s end. If last December’s appointments to the red chamber are any indication, Harper will likely pick prominent Canadians who will tow the party line when it counts…Instead of shaking our heads are the shortsighted partisanship at play here, those interested in the future of Parliament should give some thought about how we might revitalize the Senate to harness its tremendous capacity to do good work, while keeping it from being a plum patronage appointment.

  • Immigration

    Posted on July 27th, 2009

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    The Canadian Immigration Question

    The Canadian Immigration Question

    In 2008, recognizing the problems with the existing system, the Harper government wrote a reform into the budget bill in an attempt to deal with upwards of 1 million immigration applications. In essence, the Conservatives wanted to implement a system that moved away from a first-come-first-serve basis to one that gives immigration approval in conjunction with labour market requirements…Critics of this reform complain that Canada is making a return to the pre-WWII era where policy-makers handpicked immigrants based on ethnic preferences. Liberal leader Stéphane Dion calls the reform “unprecedented, sweeping, discretionary power”. Far from unprecedented, however, the reform is a pragmatic reigning-in of control over a country’s population that has grown by 2.4 million in recent years, nearly a 13.5% increase, mostly due to immigration.

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