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.

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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

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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 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.

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. 

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OTTAWA, ON (June 15, 2020): The COVID-19 pandemic has come at considerable human, economic, and societal cost to Canada. Yet an unexpected victim of the crisis has been Canada’s Parliamentary democracy.

Director Christian Leuprecht and Desmond Barton in the Toronto Star 21 July 2020

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Director Christian Leuprecht 

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Director at IIGR, Christian Leuprecht is professor at the Royal Military College, cross-appointed to Queen’s University, and a fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. He provided expert testimony, from which this op-ed is adapted, for a study on Systemic Racism in Policing in Canada by the House of Commons standing committee on public safety and national security.

Director Christian Leuprecht and Professor Peter Kasurak

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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.

A recent Globe and Mail Op Ed by Director Christian Leuprecht

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