Inroads: A Journal of Opinion articles from June 2003

Inroads: A Journal of Opinion archives from June 2003

Introducing Inroads 13.(Front Matter)(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... In PROMOTING INROADS, THE TWO FEATURES OF THE MAGAZINE THAT we mention most often are its ability to bridge the ideological divide between Left and Right and its ongoing commitment to publishing high-quality analysis from Quebec. Other selling...

Some unsolicited advice for CIDA.(Inroads editorial)(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... In A PHOTO ESSAY IN THE WINTEWSPRING ISSUE OF INROADS, ROSE Murphy and I illustrated the efforts of the Rural Electrification Board in Bangladesh to organize an island of honesty and competence in a country where political corruption has...

The B.C. NDP's economic record.(Letter to the editors)(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2003... Dear Inroads editors, IN A RECENT EDITION OF THIS JOURNAL (Inroads 11, pp. 203-13), David Bond highlighted the fact that British Columbia experienced the slowest per capita GDP growth in Canada during the 1990s, and suggested that the...

The Kyoto Accord: prudence or folly?(Inroads listserv)(Letter to the Editor)
June 22, 2003... In AUGUST 2002, WELL BEFORE PARLIAMENT GRAPPLED WITH THE issue of the Kyoto Accord, the Inroads listserv exploded with some provocative challenges to the pact--and some staunch defences Scientifically, what is the best evidence? How can we best...

Left/right: ideas across the political divide.
June 22, 2003... LEFT AND RIGHT. We think we have a clear idea of what they mean. We may have trouble expressing the difference, but we know them when we see them. And we believe in, identify with and root for one side or the other, like a religion or a...

North American community: a prospect to excite and inspire.(Left/Right)
June 22, 2003... RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN COUNTRIES DEVELOP AT DIFFERENT speeds at different points in history. Emerging as separate sovereign countries from a strong European colonial presence in the Americas, Canada, the United States and Mexico evolved in...

Canada's secret constitution: the implications of North America's grand bargain.(Left/Right)
June 22, 2003... In 2003, CANADIANS ARE BEING EXPOSED TO A VIGOROUS DEBATE about their future in a North America in which their economy has become irrevocably integrated but their participation is held hostage to the U.S. administration's fixation with homeland...

A conservative template for welfare reform.(Left/Right)
June 22, 2003... As a result of remarkably successful policy shifts in both Canada and the United States, there has emerged a conservative template for welfare reform--focus on early intervention, make work pay for families with children, and target workfare...

Are labour unions obsolete in the new global economy?(Left/Right)
June 22, 2003... AROUND THE WORLD UNIONS ARE IN DECLINE. FOR THE FIRST TIME since the 1960s the proportion of Canadians who belong to unions has fallen below 30 per cent. In the private sector, once the main bastion of organized labour, the proportion of union...

Lessons for Canada from Sweden's schools.(Left/Right)
June 22, 2003... IN 1992, THE SWEDISH GOVERNMENT ENACTED SWEEPING EDUCATIONAL reforms that made it possible for families to send their children to any school without paying tuition. Private schools, which enrolled less than 1 per cent of Sweden's school...

Foreign aid and poverty: an exchange on two books.(Left/Right)(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2001, 342 pages. Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents. New York: W.W. Norton &...

After the Quebec election: the rise and fall of Mario Dumont's ADQ: three views.
June 22, 2003... Three views MARIO DUMONT'S ACTION DEMOCRATIQUE DU QUEBEC (ADQ) WAS THE GREAT disappointment of the April Quebec election. After leading the polls in the fall of 2002, the ADQ plummeted during the campaign and was reduced to 18 per cent of...

The odd couple: Mario Dumont's ADQ and the "Quebec Model".(ADQ)
June 22, 2003... HOW ARE WE TO ACCOUNT FOR LAST YEAR'S SUDDEN ASCENDANCE of Mario Dumont, the young leader of Quebec's third party, the Action Democratique du Quebec? There is, of course, the man himself: he has style, energy, determination. He comes...

Is the ADQ Quebec's next generational party?(ADQ)
June 22, 2003... IN A MUCH-COMMENTED-ON ARTICLE IN 1986, LAVAL POLITICAL scientist Vincent Lemieux argued that in the last century of Quebec politics there had emerged, every 30 years or so, a "parti generationnel" which eclipsed one of the existing parties and...

The temptation of the ADQ: this is a revised version of an article that appeared in Argument (vol. 5, no. 2, Spring-Summer 2003). It was translated by Julian Olson.(ADQ)
June 22, 2003... THE ADQ'S SURPRISING BY ELECTION VICTORIES AND SPECTACULAR rise in the polls in 2002 revealed an unmistakable longing for change. Pollsters mused about a mysterious shift of uncommitted voters. Commentators suggested Quebecers had had their...

Hispaniola: two wings of the same bird.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2003... THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND HAITI SHARE THE ISLAND OF HISPANIOLA, AND are thus condemned by geography to share a common destiny. Yet their history has been one of conflict rather than cooperation. Currently necessity--and prodding from...

Haiti: the island's wounded wing.(Hispaniola)
June 22, 2003... IF YOU HAD FLOWN ALONG THE BORDER THAT DIVIDES HAITI AND THE Dominican Republic 20 or 30 years ago, the landscape would have looked like a map coloured by a child. The division was marked by a sharp change in hue--solid green for the Dominican...

The Dominican Republic: venturing past the tourist gate.(Hispaniola)
June 22, 2003... OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES THE NORTH COAST OF THE DOMINICAN Republic (DR) has attracted tens of thousands of Canadians seeking an escape from winter. Most come back tanned and rested with memories of coconut rum drinks on the shores of...

From "Young Turk" to "policy scout," it's the same Preston Manning.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Preston Manning, Think Big: My Adventures in Life and Democracy. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2002. 452 pages. PRESTON MANNING ENTERED POLITICS IN THE MID-1960S, FIRST AS an unsuccessful Social Credit candidate in the 1965 federal...

The row over Australian Aboriginal history.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Bain Attwood and S.G. Foster, editors, Frontier Conflict: The Australian Experience. Canberra: National Museum of Australia, 2003. 218 pages. BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED AND ILLUSTRATED, Frontier Conflict The Australian Experience is also the...

Is the tax system an economic constitution?(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Geoffrey Hale, The Politics of Taxation in Canada. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002. 403 pages. In THE LAST DECADE OR MORE, ACADEMIC POLITICAL SCIENCE in Canada, insofar as it considers Canadian issues at all, has become...

Hamiltonian Canada, from Macdonald to Trudeau.(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Stephane Kelly, Les fins du Canada: selon Macdonald, Laurier, Mackenzie King et Trudeau. Montreal: Boreal, 2001. 288 pp. STEPHANE KELLY IS A LEADING FIGURE IN A RISING YOUNGER generation of Quebec intellectuals. Kelly's first book, La...