Rock to Chips: Ensuring continued Canadian Prosperity
Two reports released this year – AI 2027 and Future Lives: Social Mobility in Question – deserve far more attention than they’ve received. Alongside Could Canada Be a Failed State?…
Could Canada be a Failed State?
The term “Failed State” conjures a narrow set of ideas in most people’s minds. Generally, one probably pictures a post-apocalyptic hellscape where there is no law and order, no governing…
Goal posts moving: Carney & NATO’s 2%
The Canadian government, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, unveiled a defence policy bombshell. It has been pledged that the Canadian government will reach its 2% commitment of GDP to defence…
Canada’s Cabinet Problem
10 February 2025 While the pointless Liberal leadership race carries on what stands out from all the noise is the lack of commentary from candidates on more fundamental structural change.…
Strengthen Canada’s Presence in the North or accept Trump’s Manifest Destiny
3 February 2025 “The whole Continent of North-America appears to me destined by Divine Providence to be people by one Nation—speaking one language—professing one general System of religious and political…
Canadian Armed Forces: Adrift without Clear Policy
13 January 2025 Canadian Armed Forces: Adrift without Clear Policy
What to watch for in 2025
1 January 2025 If there is one thing that we at DefRep enjoy – it’s predicting the future, something we are shockingly good at considering the amount of beer and…
Pierre Poilievre gets the problem right but the solution wrong.
31 December 2024 I was reading Canada’s National Post and came across an article on a subject that is pretty close to my heart, the state of universities in Canada.…
Mark Carney can’t save Trudeau’s Liberals and will torpedo his career if he tries.
10 December 2024 For what feels like forever now, voices from the moderate Left have sung in chorus the high praise of their future saviour Mark Carney. The former Governor…
Stupid or lying: Trudeau’s latest gambit, gun confiscation to save Ukraine.
6 December 2024 The Trudeau Government has been rotting from inactivity as the House remains at loggerheads over their refusal to release unredacted documents concerning Sustainable Development Technology Canada aka…