Annual Report - 2008

We’ve had many important markers of success in 15 years: CPRN was commissioned to undertake the consultati ons with Canadians that informed the Romanow report (Building on Values: the Future of Health Care in Canada), and we were selected to produce a series of youth consultati ons on behalf of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador that helped to inform their Youth Retenti on and Att racti on [...] But only fi ve months later, the government turned around and cancelled the CPRN grant as well as the funding for the Law Commission of Canada, the Canadian Labour and Business Centre, the Court Challenges Program, Volunteer Canada, the Centre for Research and Informati on on Canada and two policy units within the federal government. [...] From 1994 to 2000, the research agenda encompassed policies for families with young children, the impact of the “new” economy on the labour market and the questi on of what makes people healthy. [...] In fact, governments can be the enablers of networks and communiti es of practi ce which can synthesize all the relevant informati on.18 In additi on, provincial and territorial governments that range vastly in capacity and populati ons cannot support public policy research on their own at the level and sophisti cati on that a Federal government could, in partnership with all of the provinces and [...] The Strategy and our policy recommendati ons are intended to counter the negati ve impacts of youth net out-migrati on, strengthen the labour market and support the economic development of the province.