Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. Efforts to improve Canada’s organ donation and transplantation system have increased over the last 20 years. However, despite a significant increase in the number of organ transplants conducted in Canada between 2014 and 2024, the supply of organs does not meet… Read More ›
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. This HillStudy provides an overview of the distribution of federal government revenues and expenditures among Canada’s provinces between 2015 and 2024, based on Statistics Canada’s provincial and territorial economic accounts. It compares the revenues collected by the… Read More ›
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. Established in 1946, the International Court of Justice (ICJ or the Court) became the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It assumed the mandate of its predecessor, the Permanent Court of International Justice and is… Read More ›
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisponible en français. Supply management, established in the 1970s for the dairy, poultry and egg sectors, is a key component of Canada’s agricultural policy. This system was introduced in response to major price instability in the agriculture sector in previous… Read More ›
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisponible en français. This HillStudy has two objectives: to gain better insights into the types of issues identified by the Auditor General of Canada (AG) in performance audits of federal programs and to examine trends in the frequency of these issues. An… Read More ›
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisponible en français. Data on urban and rural areas in Canada have been collected since the first census in 1871. For successive censuses, Canada was largely characterized as a predominantly rural country with a widely dispersed population and an economy centred on rural… Read More ›
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisponible en français. Question Period is the parliamentary proceeding that tends to attract the most attention. On each day that the Senate and House of Commons are in session, Question Period gives parliamentarians an opportunity to seek information from the government and to hold it… Read More ›
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. For several decades, VIA Rail Canada Inc. (VIA Rail), a Crown corporation created in 1977, has had limited ability to improve service because most of its trains operate on tracks shared with freight trains. VIA Rail relies heavily on funding from the Government… Read More ›
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDisponible en français. This HillStudy is the second of a two-part examination of how the Supreme Court of Canada (the Supreme Court or the Court) has interpreted federal environmental law in light of Canada’s constitutional division of powers. It is a companion piece to the… Read More ›
Reading Time: 2 minutesDisponible en français. Environmental legislation can serve a variety of important ends. For example, it can regulate water and air quality, manage toxic substances, protect fish and migratory birds and their habitats, and determine how infrastructure and natural resource projects… Read More ›