CategoryMarco Navarro-Génie
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Continue Reading →: Voting for Non-Citizens: Inclusion or Manipulation?
Voting for Non-Citizens: Inclusion or Manipulation?
Granting the vote to non-citizens can be a tactical electoral subterfuge disguised as “inclusion.” The idea of permanent residents voting before (or without) becoming citizens has existed for several years. But does the idea have merit? The Canadian Civil Liberties Union virtually says Canada should do it because countries like Sweden are doing it. In 2018, the Edmonton Journal published…
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Continue Reading →: Incompetence, Crises, and Responsibility
Incompetence, Crises, and Responsibility
“You don’t care which government does what…” —Seamus O’Regan The government Justin Trudeau heads, even following the support of the New Democrats, has been in a cycle of crises to fix things they break or make worse. Most of these crises are born out of neglect and incompetence, compounded by consistent attempts to cover up…
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Continue Reading →: Must we like the people we elect?
Must we like the people we elect?
Charisma without substance is a dangerous thing.–Kim Campbell, Canada’s first and only female prime minister. Justin Trudeau’s popularity won him power in 2015. The popularity Trudeau enjoyed has steadily declined and has vastly dissipated. In the last couple of months, a strong wave of unpopularity has forced the PM to begin grappling with his political…
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Continue Reading →: Remembering Brian Mulroney (1939-2024)
Remembering Brian Mulroney (1939-2024)
The 18th prime minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney, passed away on February 29, weeks short of his 85th birthday. He is being buried today. Consequential? “One of the most consequential Prime Ministers” is the expression you may have seen about Brian Mulroney half a dozen times since yesterday. It is a formula empty of substance to…
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Continue Reading →: It’s Procurement, Stupid!
It’s Procurement, Stupid!
We should not be surprised but it rarely fails that in this country the proposed solution to every problem in government and every problem in the bureaucracy seems to be to hire more bureaucrats (or spend more money, which in most cases amounts to the same thing).
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Continue Reading →: Remembering Roger Gibbins (1947-2024)
Remembering Roger Gibbins (1947-2024)
When I was transitioning out of the Academy into the world of policy think tanks, I ran into Peter Stockland one afternoon. I could not pass up the opportunity to ask him what the art of writing good newspaper opinion columns was. His advice was as wise as it was easy to remember: “Don’t write…
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Continue Reading →: Reflections on the Freedom Convoy: Podcast
Reflections on the Freedom Convoy: Podcast
Two years after the Justin Trudeau government illegitimately invoked the Emergencies (War Measures) Act against the Freedom Convoy protesting draconian COVID restrictions, the record is slowly beginning to be corrected. This episode of Thought Farming hosts Dr. Jodi Bruhn. Dr. Jodi Bruhn is a policy consultant specializing in governance and indigenous/Crown relations. She is a…
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Continue Reading →: A Recruitment Paradox: The RCMP’s Identity Politics
A Recruitment Paradox: The RCMP’s Identity Politics
The remedy may be killing the patient