La production, le partage et l’utilisation de données numériques sont essentiels pour accélérer les nouvelles découvertes scientifiques, l’innovation et l’efficacité du système alimentaire mondial. Si elle est bien menée, l’adoption des technologies numériques devrait permettre aux secteurs agricole et agroalimentaire du Canada de soutenir certains des objectifs de développement durable les plus urgents adoptés par […]

Montréal – La sécurité alimentaire et l’accessibilité financière sont des préoccupations partout au Canada et dans le monde. Une nouvelle étude de l’IRPP montre comment l’adoption d’une stratégie numérique pourrait aider le secteur agricole canadien à réduire la faim, à s’adapter aux changements climatiques, à optimiser l’utilisation des terres et de l’eau et à promouvoir une […]

La technologie peut-elle aider le Canada à nourrir le monde tout en réduisant les émissions ? Le 21 novembre nous avons tenu un panel sur l’avenir de l’agriculture au Canada. Les panélistes Katherine MacDonald (Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada), Tyler McCann (Institut canadien des politiques agroalimentaires), Lenore Newman (Université Fraser Valley) et Peter W. B. Phillips […]

Canadian workers need a comprehensive source of information that links training programs to skills. All players in the economy will benefit.

In this chapter, the author asks what the implications of ever increasing inequality in Canada might be and whether this can possibly be a steady state.

Research shows that rising income inequality can give way to populist and protectionist sentiments and result in political uncertainty. Brexit and the results of the US election are clear manifestations of these dynamics at play. And Canada is not immune.

The success of Canada’s Asia Pacific Gateway and Corridor Initiative (APGCI) and other gateway strategies have provoked emulation and envy south of the border, as they bring significant rewards in trade, especially with Asia, to both countries. The APGCI combined Canada’s geographic advantage, smart strategic infrastructure investments linked to international trade, unprecedented federal-provincial-stakeholder partnerships, vigorous […]

Last week’s spat between Alberta Premier Alison Redford and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty on the pan-Canadian benefits of the oilsands was a good reminder of how intimately politics and policy are intertwined when it comes to energy issues. With one likely facing an electorate in the coming weeks and the other a hostile minority house, […]

Introduction The papers in this volume and the issues they examine are set against animportant health policy backdrop. There were substantial public fundingcuts to the health-care system in the mid-1990s, and also substantial reinvestments more recently. Currently, not only are tens of billions of dollars spent each year on providing health-care services for Canadians, but the rate of […]

In September 2004, Les Campbell and Thomas S. Axworthy, of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, wrote a concept paper on advancing Canadian democracy abroad. This paper was discussed at an Ottawa roundtable organized by the Institute for Research in Public Policy on September 10th to 11th, 2004. It was decided that the idea […]