Charles Breton

New policy brief from our series, 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮’𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲!

Dr. Lisa Brunner (@migration.ubc.ca) shows how fragmented governance and tuition reliance strain public trust & how a renewed, ethical approach can turn things around.

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Amen!

Canada (and Québec) is still not over it. Won't be for a while. I guess not until she defends the rainbow jersey next year...checks notes... on a hard, hilly course in Montréal.

For Indigenous leaders and Canadians, the long path to reconciliation is steady but unfinished New poll finds growing awareness of residential schools and improving relations

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Oh my. Magdeleine Vallières Mills est championne du monde de vélo sur route. Wow!

Texte: La politique industrielle n’a rien d’une science exacte : elle comporte inévitablement une part d’échec. Chaque intervention gouvernementale dans un domaine où le marché ne va pas comporte son lot d’erreurs. L’essentiel n’est pas d’éviter l’erreur, mais d’apprendre à en tirer parti pour éclairer les décisions futures. Or, comme on l’a souvent entendu lors de nos ateliers, le Canada échoue trop souvent sur ce plan : au lieu d’analyser nos ratés, nous les balayons sous le tapis.

En français aussi. Disons que ça tombe à point dans le contexte québécois.

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Canada’s industrial policy choices in the Trump era Canada faces uncertainty under Trump. Can industrial policy help build resilience through strategy, evaluation and governance?

Really good piece by @stevelafleur.bsky.social as a prelude to a large conference and report on industrial policy.

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Prairie residents feel region is gaining respect among Canadians, poll shows Some 39 per cent of residents believe their province is treated with the respect it deserves, up from 32 per cent last year

Prairie residents feel region is gaining respect among Canadians, poll shows
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Forty years later, we're due for another big rethink about Canada’s future It might be time for the next federal government to bring back one of Canada’s most effective policy instruments: The royal commission, adapted for the 21st century.

Charles Breton made a similar case here.
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Open letter to the next prime minister: We need a royal commission on Canada’s future Canada thrived within a U.S.-led liberal international order after the Second World War, but that era is over. Our economic and security policies must evolve to meet modern threats.

We laid out the rationale for a RC in an open letter earlier this year, a letter that was supported by about 100 academic and non-academic co-signatories.

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I’ll send some!

Who wants more government? Why we shouldn’t assume that younger Canadians are moving to the right

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Êtes-vous favorable à la souveraineté... ET prêt à voter oui ? Si le camp souverainiste cherche un nouveau souffle, il le trouvera peut-être chez les jeunes électeurs — à condition de les convaincre de passer de l’idée à l’action.

100% d'accord. Voici de l'excellent travail, tout en nuance, de @338canada.bsky.social comme d'habitude:
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Without checking how she pronounces it, as a French speaker, I would definitely say the first syllable like the squi in squid. But you need to find the tréma on your keyboard. Maëva makes it even better!

How should we shape industrial policy amid global shocks, climate urgency & economic transition? Join us Sept. 16 in Ottawa for a conference devoted to the key issues facing Canada.

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réponse de Foglia: je connais Gutierrez - Animal tropical, Trilogie sale de la Havane - je connais Gutierrez et c'est pas Bukowski. Bukowski c'est un écrivain.

Je ne sais pas ce qui m'avait pris, mais j'avais osé lui envoyer une suggestion lecture, du haut de mes 19 ans. J'avais même avancé que ça ressemblait à du Bukowski, qu'il aimait tant. Ma joie de lire sa réponse...même si c'était pour me dire que j'étais dans le champ! Je viens de retrouver ça.

Comme à chaque année je relisais des passages du recueil sur le Tour. Merci M. Foglia.

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Canada is facing urgent challenges. How should we shape industrial policy in an era of global shocks, climate urgency & economic transition?

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Resentment! Though I guess resentment is resilient?

So like the Jets franchise actually being Utah while the current Jets are the Trashers?

Graph show the distribution on the Resentment index for each province by provincial vote intentions.

If you're curious about how this plays out in the other provinces, here are the distributions on the index based on provincial vote intentions. Here again we see the uniqueness of UCP voters. There is just no other group with such a one-sided distribution.

I found this, but no idea if that meeting ever happened.

but I don't know if they ever did and the invitation was accepted.

Excellent question! I don't know if this is the first time that a PM showed up to one of the two official CoF meetings (summer/winter). The CoF's founding agreement does mention that "The Council may decide from time to time to hold special meetings to which it may invite the Federal Government."

A Less Resentful Federation? Findings from the 2025 Provincial Resentment Index - Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation The fourth edition of the Provincial Resentment Index shows that, on average, Canadians feel slightly less aggrieved about their province’s place in the federation than at any point since the index wa...

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Graph show the distribution on the Resentment index for each province by provincial vote intentions.

If you're curious about how this plays out in the other provinces, here are the distributions on the index based on provincial vote intentions. Here again we see the uniqueness of UCP voters. There is just no other group with such a one-sided distribution.

Distribution on the resentment index for PQ and UCP voters. UCP voters are coalescing toward the right hand side of the resentment index (i.e. more resentment) much more than PQ voters. On the scale of -6 to 6, the average for PQ voters is 2.3 while UCP voters are at 3.9.

In our Resilient Index piece we mention how Parti québécois voters in Quebec and UCP voters in Alberta have different outlooks when it comes to resentment towards their province's place in the federation, with UCP voters being much more resentful.

The vision that Benoit Pelletier and Jean Charest had when they initiated CoF in the early 2000s was for it do more than that. And I think it initially did. But yes, the need for consensus and a secretariat with no capacity largely constrained what CoF can do/achieve.

Moins de ressentiment dans la fédération ? Résultats de l’indice de ressentiment provincial 2025 - Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation La quatrième édition de l’indice de ressentiment provincial montre qu’en moyenne, les Canadiens se sentent légèrement moins lésés quant à la place de leur province dans la fédération qu’à tout moment ...

Pour tous les détails de ce papier avec @olijacques.bsky.social et @parkinac.bsky.social, c'est ici:
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