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Hillwatch Bulletins

February 2010 Deficit-Cutting Then and Now The Trudeau and Mulroney Governments were unsuccessful in eliminating the deficit; the Chretien Government succeeded.  Can we apply that experience to our current problem? More Bulletins…

Policy Briefs

October 2006 Fixing the Canadian Environmental Protection Act Hillwatch Principal recently appeared before a House of Commons Committee as an expert witness on how to improve the working of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act Reforming Government Purchasing Canadian Apparel Magazine recently published an detailed opinion piece by Hillwatch Principal Michael Teeter on why the apparelel industry needs to take action now to reform Government Procurement January 2006 Still Virtually Lawn Signs: Benchmarking Canadian Political Web Sites During the 2006 Election For this election, we updated our benchmarks of the Canadian political party web sites to evaluate their evolution from 18 months ago. Canadian party web sites deserve credit for significant improvements, however, they continue to be very much like lawn signs. They still inform, but don’t engage. More Policy Briefs…