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Sean Speer

Sean Speer

Columnist at The Globe and Mail Digital

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Canada
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  • English
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  • Politics

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Recent Articles

politico.com

The politics of gerontocracy in Canada

Steven Guilbeault vs. the web giants — Why Canada needs a pandemic inquiry
nationalpost.com

Sean Speer: The Supreme Court Justice who’s not afraid to shake thi...

Russell Brown, who was among the dissenters in this week’s carbon tax ruling, has become an intellectual beachhead for a nascent conservative legal movement in…
policyoptions.irpp.org

Perception and reality across Canada’s urban-rural divide

Perceived differences could erode cohesion and unity unless policy-makers are prepared to build bridges and cultivate a politics of empathy.
nationalpost.com

Sean Speer: After Donald Trump the role of government will never be...

Four years after his unconventional inaugural speech in which he painted a dark picture of “American carnage”, Donald Trump’s presidency has officially come…
theglobeandmail.com

The answer to people with anti-vaccine beliefs is to address the ca...

Renegade MP Derek Sloan caters to an anti-mask, anti-vaccine base that contradicts leader Erin O’Toole’s own objectives
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Overlapping services and policies have tangled up the federation

Reforming fiscal federalism must address intergovernmental entangling of services and policies. The Council of the Federation could play a key role.
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Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto in the Department of Political Science. He is a research fellow with the Policy, Elections, and Representation Lab at the Munk School as well as a 2019-2020 Royal Bank Policy Fellow.
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Luka Glozic

Luka Glozic is a recent graduate of the Master of Public Policy program at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
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Will post-COVID policies realize the full potential of rural Canada?

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the “place blindness” that causes policy-makers to overlook the specific needs and potential of rural Canada.
financialpost.com

Terence Corcoran: Stop the rise of anti-capitalist conservatism

In the full heat of the COVID-19 lockdown, an apparently broad anti-free-enterprise movement is gaining traction within conservative circles
nationalpost.com

Shockproofing Canada: COVID-19 makes it clear we must repatriate PP...

Sean Speer: The more fundamental question is: what other parts of the economy require rethinking through the lens of shockproofing?
nationalpost.com

Sean Speer: Will globalization fall victim to the coronavirus?

As travel restrictions curb the flow of people and goods, we’re starting to see the fragility of global supply chains
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Time for new measures of economic success and social well-being?

In addition to GDP, we need well-being statistics that capture the diverse situations of populations and threats to society’s long-term sustainability.
nationalpost.com

The battle for post-Trump conservatism is already underway — and Ca...

Oren Cass wasn’t run out of town for his heresies, but captured the attention of a polite — if skeptical — audience of Canada’s Conservative power-players
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“Urban-rural” divide in Atlantic Canada is a myth

Polling shows little proof of the urban-rural divide in Atlantic Canada on social and economic issues. Perhaps it’s time to discard the stereotype.
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Drew Fagan

Drew Fagan recently left the public service after many years working in senior executive positions at the federal and provincial level.
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The correlation between GDP and greenhouse gas emissions

Since 1956 our GDPs and emissions have mostly increased apace. If we are to meet our 2030 emissions-reduction target, they must be “decoupled.”
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The urban/rural divide and a more inclusive Canada

We need to address the growing divide between Canadians who live in urban areas and in rural areas, or risk the political disconnect facing the US.