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Tom Velk
Tom Velk - From the Right

Tom Velk is chair of McGill University's North American studies program and a member of McGill's economics department. He has published dozens of articles and edited four books on Canadian-American public policy issues. He has also worked for the Board of Governors of the American Federal Reserve System and the World Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in economics, with a minor in law.

FEATURE COLUMN:

March 10, 2006
Do we really need an ethics commissioner?
"Does Shapiro have any evidence that money has been stolen or that Parliament was deceived? Of course not. He has a floor crossing and some MPs who resent it."


OTHER COLUMNS BY TOM VELK:

February 13, 2006
The 'Satanic' caricatures: another bloody page in history?

February 1, 2006
Harper's future issues

December 16, 2005
Looking in Your Own Backyard: Clashing Left and Right Ideals

November 18, 2005
Looking in Your Own Backyard: Clashing Left and Right Ideals

August 8, 2005
The debate about Michaëlle Jean
August 5, 2005
Hooray for Tony Blair

August 2, 2005
Extremists vs social order

July 6, 2005
Throwing cash at Africa isn't the answer

June 22, 2005
How to fix our government

May 24, 2005
Time to take the House off the market

May 11, 2005
Bush leads with big ideas

April 22, 2005
He's not a crook. That doesn't mean he should be PM

March 28, 2005
The Schiavo case

February 28, 2005
Bush's big idea: the best yet

January 10, 2005
Paul Martin's next Big Speech

December 15, 2004
IBM, China, the deficit and deportment




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