Browsing by Author "Marchildon, Gregory P."

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Bending the healthcare cost curve in Canada
(2015-03-20) Marchildon, Gregory P.; Matteo, Livio Di
Canadian governments received a pleasant surprise this year: expenditure growth on public health care in Canada finally appears to be slowing. What's unclear is if this slowdown is the result of provincial success in sustainably bending the cost-curve, or more short-term cost-cutting in response to slower economic growth or future federal health transfers.
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Saskatchewan and Manitoba
(Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, 2012-09-27) Marchildon, Gregory P.
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SIPP Policy Dialogue Number 12 Spring 2006
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2006) Maxwell, Judith; Richards, John; Peach, Ian; Smith, David E.; Marchildon, Gregory P.; Marshall, Jim; Morgan, Jeremy; White, Jodi; Olfert, Rose; Fulton, Murray; Fontaine, Lorena; Whyte, John D.; Johnston, Elsa; Clay, Sharon; Mahmood, Nasir; Peel, Alyssa
With the arrival of spring, the university community begins to wind down in expectation of the arrival of summer. SIPP, too, has begun to move into summer mode, and our events and publications are giving way to planning for 2006-07. We have done much to be proud of in 2005-06 and I am looking forward to another active year in 2006-07. Having just finished a highly successful conference on Aboriginal justice issues, I am particularly excited about our 2007 conference, “The Constitution Act, 1982 and Canada’s Continuing Constitutional Evolution”, which will be held in honour of the 25th anniversary of the proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982.
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SIPP Policy Dialogue Number 15 Spring 2007
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2007) Leeson, Howard; Marchildon, Gregory P.; Elliott, Patricia W.; Larsen, Ken; Whyte, John D.; Irvine, Andrew D.; Marshall, Jim; Kumar, Malreddy Pavan; Wiseman, Nelson; Burch, Fred; Chartrand, Paul; Peach, Ian
Welcome to the latest issue of SIPP’s Policy Dialogue. We have always sought to foster public policy debate on a variety of issues and I am pleased that, in the case of two of our articles, that dialogue is happening within the pages of our newsletter. Such interaction is a part of our mandate we take very seriously at the Institute, so I would encourage all of our readers to think about contributing thoughtful articles on issues that interest you to future Policy Dialogues. After all, if it interests you, it likely interests others as well.
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SIPP Policy Dialogue Number 16 Fall 2007
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2007) Pardy, Bruce; Whyte, John D.; Steeves, Larry; Lewis, Steven; Walker, Allan; Mitchell, Graeme G.; Driedger, Otto; Marchildon, Gregory P.; Elliott, Patricia W.; Rigby, George
On Sept 1st of this year, I was appointed Director of SIPP. I am delighted to once again be back in an organization with which I have long had an affiliation. I was a member of the original board of directors; later, I enjoyed a wonderful year at SIPP as a policy fellow. I am not only looking forward to working with old colleagues but I am excited to be in an institution which operates at the interface between policy research and actual decision-making.
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SIPP Policy Dialogue Number 17 Winter 2008
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2008) Whyte, John D.; Irvine, Andrew D.; Smith, David E.; Elliott, Patricia W.; Albritton, William L.; Schwartz, Sheldon; Bonli, Rupal; Marchildon, Gregory P.; Diaz, Polo; Sauchyn, Dave; Lapp, Susan; Hurlbert, Margot; Cameron, Dan
The title of this periodical is Policy Dialogue. It could just as easily have been Policy Debate but that would have been inconsistent with the purpose and spirit of this publication. Debate is, generally, a zero-sum game. The purpose of debate is to win the argument on its merit – the evidence produced and the logic – and the style of presentation including the points you can score off your opponent, humorously or otherwise. It is stylized combat with little quarter given to your opponent or your opponent’s argument and assumptions. At its best, debate can produce new arguments and new ways of seeing existing problems but, at its worst, debate encourages evidence to be exaggerated and the truth twisted. At its most boring, debate simply raises old arguments in the same old ways. For all of these reasons, policy debate often generates more heat than light. You don’t have to look far to see examples of this, including the current debate over climate change, the subject of four of the essays in this issue of Policy Dialogue.
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SIPP Policy Dialogue Number 18 Spring 2008
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2008) MacIvor, Heather; Bell, Patricia; Norman, Ken; Whyte, John D.; Ward, Lee; Marchildon, Gregory P.; Marshall, Jim; Conway, John; Rocan, Claude; Martens, Patricia J.; Kluger, Joseph; Hedlund, Dave
Last issue, I reflected a little on the meaning of the word “dialogue.” Trying to define the word “policy” much less reflecting on its deeper meanings and nuances is much more difficult in part because almost every policy practitioner has his or her own intuitive or common sense definition of the word. Scholars have hardly helped matters. I have seen entire books on public policy in which the authors do not once attempt to define what they mean by policy. This can cause serious problems in conversations about what constitutes effective public policy. We end up arguing in circles hardly realizing that our definitions of “policy” are at least partially incompatible. The stakes are high for those charged with the responsibility to initiate and implement public policy today. They are also high for those of us in the business of judging the past, keeping in mind that we ultimately assess governments on their public policy legacies – that is, what individual administrations have bequeathed to subsequent generations.
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SIPP The Scholar Series Fall 2001
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2001-10-18) Marchildon, Gregory P.
Royal Commissions and the Policy Cycle in Canada: The Case of Health Care
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A Survey of the GM Industry in Saskatchewan and Western Canada
(Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy, 2003-05) de Clercy, Cristine; Greenberg, Louise; Gilchrist, Donald; Marchildon, Gregory P.; McHughen, Alan
This research paper on GM food policy had its beginnings in late 2001, when the Saskatchewan Institute of Public Policy began a research project on the GM industry in Saskatchewan supported equally by the Government of Saskatchewan and the Department of Western Economic Diversification. Dr. Greg Marchildon and Dr. Louise Greenberg oversaw much of the research for this project while they were, successively, Government of Saskatchewan Public Policy Fellows at the Institute. The Institute would like to acknowledge their contribution to this project.
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University of Regina Community Authors 2014-2015
(University of Regina Library, 2015) Aluma, Ponziano; Blake, Raymond; Bowman, Donna; Carlson Berg, Laurie; DeCoste, D. Marcel; van Eijk, Jan; Elliott, Patricia W; Hepting, Daryl H.; Garneau, David; Yeh, Clement; Hillabold, Jean R. (pen name: Jean Roberta); Hill, Gerald; Jeffery, Bonnie; Johnston, Susan; Battis, Jes; Lankauskas, Gediminas; MacDonald, Alex; Marchildon, Gregory P.; Anderson, Carl; Kubik, Wendee; McFadzean, Cassidy; McNeil, Barbara; Nolan, Kathleen T.; Önder, Nilgün; Petty, Sheila; Polster, Claire; Pridmore, Helen; Purdham, Medrie; Trussler, Michael; Qu, Amy; Ramsay, Christine; Rogers, Randal; Ratt, Solomon; Rheault, Sylvain; Stevens, Andrew; Szabados, Béla
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Western Policy Analyst Quarterly Volume 2 Issue 4
(2011-12) Marchildon, Gregory P.; Marshall, Jim; Gieni, Cody; Elliott, Doug; Allen, Tom; Natcher, David
Health Care Spending and Fiscal Sustainability – 1; Western Workers More Productive – 4; Should We Sound the Alarm on Western Canadian Debt? – 6; Farm Income – 8; Aboriginal Communities and the Rating Game – 11
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Western Policy Analyst Quarterly Volume 3 Issue 1
(2012-02) Dupeyron, Bruno; Fulton, Murray; Çule, Monika; Marshall, Jim; Marchildon, Gregory P.
Immigration and Integration – 1; Port Access and Regulation in a Post-Canada Wheat Board Monopoly World – 6; Private and Public Investment Intentions, 2012 – 8; Underlying Health Care Cost Drivers in Western Canada – 10
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Western Policy Analyst Quarterly Volume 4 Issue 2
(2012-12) Wilson, Stuart J.; Olfert, M. Rose; Marchildon, Gregory P.; Mou, Haizhen; Harris, Jonathan; Lockhart, Wallace; Zhang, Lihui
Resource Revenues and Heritage Funds – 1; Employment Options for On-Reserve Populations – 4; What does the New Canada Health Transfer Plan mean for Western Canada? – 7; Out-of-pocket Prescription Drug Cost – 10