James Drummond Canada has come under much scrutiny in recent weeks for its lack of commitment to climate change initiatives. Prime Minister Stephen Harper skipped out on annual climate change talks, opting instead for a face-to-face meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. And just last week, a scathing report was released criticizing Canada for…
Category: Asia-Pacific
Crimean Lessons: Implications for China and the Asia-Pacific Region, Part 2
Ernest Chong China and the Asia-Pacific can draw a few conclusions from the current situation in the Crimea. Where does this leave the region? How has China responded, and what are the implications? Strangely, the region is relatively quiet. Beijing’s neighbours are feeling somewhat vindicated in their individual decisions to hedge against China’s ‘peaceful rise’,…
Crimean Lessons: Implications for China and the Asia-Pacific Region, Part 1
Ernest Chong As Western Europe and the United States scramble to craft effective responses to the Ukraine crisis, another collection of nations is anxiously watching the aftermath unfold from the other side of the globe. What does the Crimean situation mean for China and the Asia-Pacific? This two-part brief looks at the lessons and implications…
Poor Long-Term Outcomes for Participants of the Live-in Caregiver Program
Daphne Cheung The long-standing stereotype of the Filipino nanny is shockingly difficult to dispel. The Made in Canada report catalogues that 95% of participants of Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) are women; and of these the Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative (TIEDI) reports that 90% were born in the Philippines. While over 88% of participants in…
Policy Inconsistency and Canada’s Boycott of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
Ahila Poologaindran The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), a biennial summit of Commonwealth nations, is currently underway in Colombo, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not in attendance. The supposed reason for Canada’s boycott is that Sri Lanka, the island host of this year’s meeting, has done little to address the widespread accusations of human…
Seen and Heard: Ontario Minister Eric Hoskins on Preparing Ontario’s Economy for the Future
Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston Over a two-course lunch in a meeting hall overlooking Toronto’s financial district, Ontario Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Employment Eric Hoskins spoke at length about the direction our province’s economic development should take. The audience was a small crowd of maybe a hundred members and invitees hosted by the Toronto Board of…
