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One Economic Market or a Collection of Jealous Rivals? Ensuring the Effectiveness of Securities Reform in Canada

This Mowat Note examines the options for organizing the Canadian Securities Regulator. It finds that it is in all Canadians’ interest to have a head office located in Toronto.
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Re-Inventing Regional Economic Development

A recently released series of Mowat Papers by Neil Bradford and David Wolfe explores how the new federal economic development agency for southern Ontario—FedDev Ontario—can best meet its objective of supporting economic prosperity, transformation and innovation in the region.
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Immigration, Jobs and Canada's Future

In this special issue of Policy Options a number of essays examine immigration in Canada, focusing primarily on the economic dimension, and, in particular, the deteriorating situation of recent newcomers and possible ways to improve that situation.
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The Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement: Assessment and Options for Renewal

In this new Mowat Paper, Leslie Seidle examines the Ontario, Manitoba and BC federal-provincial agreements and identifies a number of successes and potential improvements that should govern the renegotiation of the next COIA.
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International Perspectives on Immigrant Service Provision

A Mowat Paper by Myer Siemiatycki and Phil Triadafilopoulos examines the role of sub-national jurisdictions in immigrant settlement and integration in Australia, Germany, the United States and Britain.
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Some are More Equal than Others: Canadian Political Representation in Comparative Context

This Mowat Note finds that violations of rep-by-pop are significantly greater in Canada than in other comparable federations around the world.
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The Principle of Representation by Population in Canadian Federal Politics

A Mowat Paper by Andrew Sancton provides evidence that, despite Canada’s clear constitutional commitment to rep-by-pop among the provinces, deviations from this principle are today far greater than at any time in Canada’s history.
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The New Ontario: The Shifting Attitudes of Ontarians Toward the Federation

Matthew Mendelsohn and J. Scott Matthews examine the political implications of Ontarians' changing views about the Canadian federation.
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