As COVID-19 rages, parallels are sought with the coronavirus epidemic of 2003 and earlier pandemics. McGill-Queen’s University Press has, therefore, made the 2006 edited volume, SARS in Context: Memory, History, Policy freely available online.
IIGR Director Christian Leuprecht has an OpEd in the Globe and Mail on the intergovernmental dimensions of the use of the Canadian Armed Forces to assist civil authorities, arguing that the CAF should reorganize and give the Reserves a civil defence mandate so the Regular Force can focus on Canada’s international commitments.
In his op-ed Dr. Leuprecht says as far as the public is concerned, the military’s away game is discretionary – a distraction used to keep busy when forces are not needed at home.
Federalism-E has recently published its 21st Volume! Federalism-E began in 2001 and is an electronic student journal about federalism, multi-level governance, and intergovernmental relations put forth in collaboration between Queen's University, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and the Royal Military College of Canada.
IIGR research fellow Kyle Hanniman wrote an Intelligence Memo for the C.D. Howe Institute - Backstopping Provincial Debt: How the Bank of Canada Made its Move
In a joint report between the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute titled “Fiscal Fairness: How Equalization Failed Alberta in its Time of Need and How to Fix It,” authors Thomas J. Courchene and Teresa M. Courchene examine the problems inherent in the current equalization formula and the solutions that are on the table to correct the imbalance facing Alberta.
IIGR research fellow Kyle Hanniman wrote an op-ed on 9 April 2020 for the Financial Post about the challenges provincial borrowers are facing in long-term bond markets and what the Bank of Canada (BoC) could do about it. Including provincial bonds in the BoC's new quantitative easing program is one option worth exploring, he argues.
How should Canadians mitigate and cope with severe shocks to provincial revenues? Should the federal government enhance nationwide insurance? Should the provinces limit and insure against provincial revenue volatility themselves? And how do we identify useful and politically acceptable policy solutions?
14-15 June 2019
