Diamond mining in Canada began in 1998, with the first production from the Ekati mine in the Northwest Territories …. Since then the Diavik mine has begun production, and two other mines are slated to begin production within two years. Canada … located in the northern regions of Canada, and hence contribute substantially to the growth of these regions. Diamond …

In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … concludes from this exercise that more open trade may have contributed to inequalities in Canada, by favoring certain groups …

liberalization commitments and was subject to review by the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Committee. In her view, the same mechanism …

Western political leaders, under pressure from increasingly vocal protestors, emphasizing the potential of trade … countries. In spite of its pious preaching in favour of trade liberalization, the North has left in place high protectionist … implementation and trade adjustment; a substantial weakening of anti-dumping regimes; and the refusal to include environmental and …

Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …

In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to … argues that the elimination of the deficit has reduced risk premia and allowed the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates …

in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior economic performance of the Canadian economy relative to the U ….S. economy squarely on the back of the Bank of Canada, and dismisses structural explanations of the recession as lacking an …

is essential to an overall understanding of the fall in labour force participation in the 1990s in Canada. In the fifth … labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. They disaggregate the youth participation rate into three components: the …

distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends … income in Canada during the 1990s. …

links between monetary policy and the economic well-being of Canadians. The Bank of Canada economists do admit that tight …