OttawaPaying the billsScott Clark and Peter DeVries consider the Harper government’s health funding proposal.
OttawaAnother year’s federal politics in 12 chaptersStages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on...
OttawaOn the Supreme Court rejecting a national securities regulatorThe court doesn’t doubt that valid reasons for national securities regulation exist. But that’s not the point.
OttawaHealth transfers: More on flat tires and etiquettePaul Wells on how Ottawa never offers to negotiate when preparing to cut or limit transfers
OttawaFlaherty’s non-negotiable terms fit health spending reality [UPDATED]Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s decision to lay down the law, rather than open up negotiations, on health care transfers from the...
OttawaWhat the Conservatives promisedThe new health transfer model apparently comes with no strings attached . Like the six percent promise, that seems at odds with...
OttawaWhat Jim Flaherty saidAfter the Liberals and Conservatives exchanged campaign promises in April, Jim Flaherty was interviewed by Kathleen Petty on CBC...
Ottawa’What the federal government campaigned on’Ontario is unimpressed . The Globe counts Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, PEI and Manitoba as standing, quite literally, in the...
OttawaSix percent, until it’s not six percentThe Finance Minister shows his hand on health transfers. The finance department release is here . See previously: What did the...