Studies in progress:

• The Spending Power and Federal Policy Leadership: A Prospective View
• Exploring Options to Resolve the Dispute over the Federal Spending Power in Canada

Studies published to date:

• Global Futures for Canada's Global Cities
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Policy Matters, June 2007
  

• Energy Prices, Equalization and Canadian Federalism: Comparing Canada's Energy Price Shocks (previously published in the Queen's Law Journal)
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Special Report, August 2006
  

• Accountability and Federalism in the Era of Federal Surpluses: The Paul Martin Legacy, Part II
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Working papers, February 2006
  

• Planning for the Next Pandemic Threat: Defining the Federal Role in Public Health Emergencies
  Kumanan Wilson, Harvey Lazar
  Policy Matters, November 2005
  

• Resource Revenues and Equalization: Five-Province vs. National-Average Standards, Alternatives to the Representative Tax System, and Revenue-Sharing Pools
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Working papers, August 2005
  

• Citistates and the State of Cities: Political-Economy and Fiscal-Federalism Dimensions
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Working papers, June 2005
  

• Vertical and Horizontal Fiscal Imbalances: An Ontario Perspective
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Special Report, May 2005
  

• Looking Backward, Thinking Forward
  Hugh Segal
  Speech, May 2005
  

• Fiscal Gaps and Imbalances: The New Fundamentals of Canadian Federalism
  France St-Hilaire
  Special Report, May 2005
  

• An Examination of the Interaction Between Natural Resource Revenues and Equalization Payments: Lessons for Atlantic Canada
  Wade Locke, Paul Hobson
  Working papers, October 2004
  

• The Changing Nature of Quebec-Canada Relations: From the 1980 Referendum to the Summit of the Canadas
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Working papers, September 2004
  

• Federal-Provincial Transfers for Social Programs in Canada: Their Status in May 2004
  Stephen Laurent, François Vaillancourt
  Working papers, July 2004
  

• Confiscatory Equalization: The Intriguing Case of Saskatchewan’s Vanishing Energy Revenues
  Thomas J. Courchene
  Choices, March 2004
  

• Council of the Federation Series
  Douglas Brown (ed.), France St-Hilaire (ed.)
  Council of the fed, October 2003