A Resilient Federation? Public Policy Challenges for the New Decade

Setting the post-pandemic policy agenda for managing the Canadian federation.

The Centre’s inaugural essay series brings together some of Canada’s foremost scholars on a range of issues, providing insights into key public policy challenges facing the Canadian federation in this new post-pandemic context and offering proposals for the path ahead.

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Resilient Federalism and Transformative Policy Change: What are the Prospects for a New “National Policy” in Canada?

Jörg Broschek

Recognition and New Arrangements: The Challenges of a Multinational Federation

Alain Noël

Unfinished Business: Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Sheryl Lightfoot

Strengthening Canada’s Fiscal Resilience

Kyle Hanniman

Imagining the Canadian Language Regime of Tomorrow

Stéphanie Chouinard and Luc Turgeon

Reimagining the Canadian Federation through an Urban Lens

Gabriel Eidelman

Building Bridges: Toward a Reform of Canadian Intergovernmental Relations

Jared Wesley

Reconsidering the Constitutional Status of Municipalities: From Creatures of the Provinces to Provincial Constitutionalism

Kristin R. Good

The Persistence of Western Alienation

Loleen Berdahl

About the Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation

The Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation is a permanent research body within the Institute for Research on Public Policy. Its mission is to build a deeper understanding of Canada as a federal community.

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