Higher debt is not only a burden, but also exposes provinces to increasingly challenging fiscal risks
Financial Post comment by Kyle Hanniman (assistant professor of political studies at Queen’s University) and Trevor Tombe (associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary and co-director of Finances of the Nation).
Kyle Hanniman
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University
Christian Leuprecht is the Class of 1965 Professor in Leadership in the Department of Political Science and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada.
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.
