The Truth About Canada (54 page)

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

1.
Globe and Mail
, October 2006.

2.
For water usage see
OECD Factbook
, 2007, p. 165.

3.
OECD in Figures
, 2005, Supplement 1.

4.
Lies, Damned Lies and Trade Statistics
, Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine, 2006 (
www.umain.edu/canam
).

5.
McClelland & Stewart, 2007.

6.
“Water and NAFTA: The Politics of Change,”
Canadian Organic Grower
, June 2004.

7.
“International Economic Law: Water for Money’s Sake?” (paper presented at conference in Brasilia, Brazil, September 2004).

8.
Comments by Mel Clark to the author, April 2007.

9.
Globe and Mail
, November 11, 2005.

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

1.
OECD in Figures
, 2007.

2.
OECD Economic Outlook
, Statistical Annex, 2006.

3.
The Economist
, April 1, 2006.

CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT

1.
Globe and Mail
, June 29, 2007.

2.
New York Times
, July 29, 2005.

3.
Maclean’s
, December 3, 2007.

4.
The Innovative Research Group,
Maclean’s
, March 19, 2007.

5.
Society at a Glance
, 2006, OECD.

6.
Alberto Isgut, Lance Biales, and James Milway in
International Productivity Monitor
, Fall 2006.

7.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

8.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

9.
Insights on the Canadian Economy
, Statistics Canada, August, 2007.

10.
Globe and Mail
, November 9, 2006. The Center for Economic and Policy Research said in May 2007 that in France 30 days of legally required paid leave was the standard. This compares with 25 days in Sweden, 22 in Spain, 20 in Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom, 10 in Canada and Japan, and zero in the United States.

11.
Globe and Mail
, November 19, 2007.

12.
Globe and Mail
, November 23, 2007, based on
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, November 22, 2007.

13.
Toronto Star
, November 25, 2007.

14.
Letter to the editor,
Globe and Mail
, November 20, 2007.

PART NINE

CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE

1.
Society at a Glance
, 2006, OECD.

2.
Globe and Mail
, October 20, 2007.

3.
To be exact, 174,661 people made donations out of a total of 23,054,614 eligible voters, for a percentage of 0.76.

4.
Fair Vote Canada, January 24, 2006.

5.
1940, 1949, 1958, 1984.

6.
The 2006 figures were based on $1.75 per vote.

7.
In the first half of 2007, 45,192 Canadians contributed to the Conservative Party, 14,782 to the NDP, only 4,367 to the Liberals, 2,669 to the Green Party, and 476 to the Bloc Québécois.

8.
Toronto Star
, January 3, 2007.

9.
Globe and Mail
, March 22, 2007.

10.
Policy Options
, September 2005.

11.
A fuller description of the workings of an MMP system can be found on Fair Vote Canada’s website:
www.fairvotecanada.org
The Law Commission of Canada’s report is titled
Voting Counts: Electoral Reform in Canada
(www.lcc.gc.ca, or [email protected], or 613–946–8980).

12.
An excellent source of comparative international data appears in Arend Lijphart,
Patterns of Democracy, Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999). Fair Vote Canada also has a 10-page summary of key findings: “Can Fair Voting Systems Really Make a Difference?” available on the Publications page at
www.fairvote.ca.

13.
CCPA Monitor
, September 2004.

14.
For more information on the single transferable vote (STV), see
www.citizensassembly.bc.ca.

15.
Georgia Straight
, February 10, 2005.

16.
April 14, 2007.

17.
Globe and Mail
, October 1, 2007.

CHAPTER FORTY

1.
United Nations,
Human Development Report
, 2005, and
The Economist
magazine’s
Pocket World in Figures
, 2007.

2.
Toronto Star
, November 26, 2007.

3.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, November 7, 2006.

4.
Education at a Glance
, 2006, OECD.

5.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, December 8, 2006.

6.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, November 23, 2006.

7.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, January 5, 2007, and
Canadian Economic Observer
, Statistics Canada, June 2007.

8.
Society at a Glance
, 2007, OECD.

9.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, March 7, 2006.

10.
Globe and Mail
, January 29, 2007.

11.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

12.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, September 24, 2004.

13.
Literary Review of Canada
, April 2007.

14.
United Nations,
Human Development Report
, 2006.

15.
United Nations,
Human Development Report
, 2005.

CONCLUSION

1.
October 3, 2002.

2.
Globe and Mail
, September 15, 2001.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Bravo to Aaron Paton of the
Banff Crag & Canyon
, who won a Community Newspaper Association award for his efforts to properly publicize the story.

5.
Elliott was appointed as the new RCMP commissioner by Stockwell Day in July 2007.

6.
Ottawa Citizen
, March 23, 2007.

7.
E-mail, March 31, 2007.

8.
In September 2007, an American SPP negotiator, Joseph Dukert, an adjunct fellow at the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies, warned that the continentalism of energy is already so well entrenched that “it would be a provocation if a future government … tried to back out of the SPP.”

9.
Democrat Marcy Kaptur.

10.
Globe and Mail
, July 9, 2007.

11.
National Post
, August 29, 2007.

12.
Testimony before the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade (CIIT) Canada-U.S. Trade and Investment Issues and the SPP.

13. Ipsos Reid poll, conducted for CanWest News and Global News, October 16, 2007.

GLOSSARY

1.
OECD Factbook
, 2006.

APPENDIX ONE

1.
Judy Foreman, February 10, 2004.

2.
Globe and Mail
, July 13, 2005.

3.
New York Times
, December 31, 2006.

4.
Toronto Star
, March 21, 2006.

5.
New York Times
, June 16, 2004.

6.
Economic Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., 2006.

7.
New York Times Book Review
, March 23, 2006.

8.
New York Times
, March 2, 2007.

9.
Time
, May 29, 2006.

APPENDIX TWO

1.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, September 6, 2005.

2.
Toronto Star
, April 15, 2007.

3.
See, for example, the
Post’s
January 15, 2007, lead editorial.

4.
Child Poverty in Rich Countries
, 2005.

5.
March 12, 2006.

6.
The Province
, February 25, 2007.