Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) program needs to be revised and updated to make it simpler, more generous and better able to meet the needs of today’s labour market, concludes a new report by the Institute for Research on Public Policy. The federal government is undertaking a two-year review of Canada’s EI program, the first major … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy announced the creation of the Accenture Future of Public Service Journalism Fellowship. Its first incumbent, renowned journalist Kathryn May, will publish her analyzes in the pages of Policy Options, the IRPP’s award-winning digital magazine. “This editorial fellowship will fill an important gap in Canadian journalism and provide valuable insights … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy published a paper which shows that whether people support equalization depends largely on their attachment to their province and country — and on how they perceive Quebec. The paper’s authors, Olivier Jacques, Daniel Béland and André Lecours, recommend reforming the program’s governance structure and revising the equalization formula to adapt … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy released a new study which calls for permanent reforms to provide access to short-term paid and protected sickness and caregiving leaves to all working Canadians. Co-authors Eric Tucker and Leah Vosko recommend that workers be eligible for 15 days of paid leave to cover both sickness and caregiving needs, which … Read more
A new paper from the Institute for Research on Public Policy and the University of Oxford outlines the differences among the policy responses of Canada’s provinces and territories to the pandemic. The culmination of 12 months of tracking by the IRPP’s Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation and Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, the paper provides … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy’s Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation released a new publication which calls for Canada’s governments to exploit the strengths of federalism to improve long-term care. Report author Carolyn Tuohy shows that the most promising path to federal-provincial cooperation can be found in two key areas where both orders of government already have … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy published a new report, Mapping Canada’s Training Ecosystem: Much Needed and Long Overdue, in which authors Tony Bonen and Matthias Oschinski show that Canada is in dire need of a comprehensive information system that clearly links the skills acquired through training and education programs to those sought in the job market. … Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic is only the latest crisis to expose the inadequacies of the Employment Insurance (EI) program. As access to EI benefits varies across regions and many unemployed workers were not covered, Ottawa had no choice but to develop new temporary income-support programs to deal with the unprecedented layoffs brought on by confinement measures. “In … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy published a new study entitled Irregular Border Crossings and Asylum Seekers in Canada: A Complex Intergovernmental Problem. Researchers Mireille Paquet (Concordia University) and Robert Schertzer (University of Toronto) see this as a complex intergovernmental problem; one that spans boundaries and challenges current modes and venues of intergovernmental relations. The researchers believe … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy launched its Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation, a permanent research body that will build a deeper understanding of Canada as a federal community. With the provincial and federal governments focused on their responses to COVID-19, and all eyes turning to Ottawa as Parliament resumes this week, the … Read more
