March Briefing

In urgent need of reform - Canada's healthcare system in crisis

KAS Canada Briefings are monthly reports that cover important national issues.

February Briefing

Canada's Value as a Place to Study

KAS Canada Briefings are monthly reports covering important national topics.

December Briefing

Mit einem neuen Dreijahresplan für die Einwanderung will die Regierung um Justin Trudeau die Einwanderungszahlen für die Jahre 2024 bis 2026 stabilisieren. Damit wechselt sie ihren bisherigen Kurs, der auf stetig steigende Einwanderungszahlen setzte. Während die Regierung in Ottawa in der Einwanderung das Allheilmittel für die kanadische Wirtschaft sieht, sinkt erstmals die traditionell breite Akzeptanz für die hohen Einwanderungszahlen in der Bevölkerung. Warum immer mehr Zuwanderung, wenn schon jetzt nicht ausreichend Wohnraum zur Verfügung steht, Millionen Menschen keinen Hausarzt haben und es nicht genug Schulplätze gibt? Dringende Fragen für das Land, welches im Westen für seine Einwanderungspolitik bewundert wird.

The Energy Partnership Between Canada and Germany

Opportunities and Challenges

In March 2021 Canada and Germany committed to establishing an energy partnership. This was followed in August 2022 by a joint announcement of a Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance. As the world embarks on a transformational path toward decarbonized energy systems and wars in the Ukraine and the Middle East remind us of the complex entanglements of politics, energy, and the environment, in what follows, the bilateral energy partnership will be analyzed to determine the nature and future of this partnership.

October Briefing

Drug policy and drug reality in Canada - the example of Vancouver

The KAS Canada Briefings are special reports that deal with important national issues.

Immigration and the Public

Centre for Migration Studies Working Paper Series 2023/5

September Briefing

Young Canadians’ Biggest Fears

KAS Canada Briefings are monthly reports that address prominent national issues.

Worst poll results since 2015: Justin Trudeau becomes a burden for his party

Canada's Conservatives are riding a mood high

The dissatisfaction of the Canadian population with their governing party and its leader has reached new depths. There seems to be no end in sight to the Liberals' 15-month slide. The popularity of both the party and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has steadily declined, and the latest results of opinion polls by Canada's leading institutes are not likely to reassure the Liberals' worried base. At the same time, the Conservatives (CPC) under their charismatic leader Pierre Poilievre are basking in poll results that currently even suggest that a majority government for the party, which has remained in opposition since 2015, is possible.

Canada-Germany Resource Security: Navigating in a Changing World Order

Our approach to this report included an environmental scan of current media related to the Canada-Germany relationship and energy landscape, a review of relevant public opinion research, and insight from in-depth interviews with policy and sector experts in Canada and Germany.

Why Charles III will not also be Charles the Last for Canada

Despite Canadians' discomfort with the monarchy and their British king: for now, the crown is not replaceable

On May 2, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau became the target of an unusual attack. During Question Period of the Canadian House of Commons, Rhéal Éloi Fortin, a member of the opposition Bloc Québécois (BC) from the French-speaking part of Canada, expressed his disapproval of the Prime Minister's participation in the coronation of Charles III on May 6 in London. Trudeau had therefore specially adjusted his schedule and left the concurrent party convention of his governing Liberals only after the first day, May 4, in order to arrive in Europe on time. "He could have sent someone in his place, such as a minister, but his priority is to prostrate himself before the king," Fortin shouted loudly into the chamber. By then, however, Trudeau had already left it, and his Canadian Heritage Minister had to fend off the attack. True, as a regional party, the BC has traditionally been anti-British and anti-monarchist - as early as the 18th century, France had to cede large parts of its Canadian possessions to Great Britain. But Fortin's contribution, placed specifically at the start of Coronation Week in Great Britain, tapped into a currently quite measurable antipathy throughout Canada toward the British monarchy and its still authoritative role in the country.