Brains Trust

The Senate's committee studies and critical reviews of proposed legislation have helped chart new ways forward as Canadians continually strive to understand and find creative solutions for a wide variety of contemporary challenges.  

Brains Trust presents a selection of independent studies and legislation on a variety of topics.  Summaries, impacts and links for more information are provided.  Please select a letter from the alphabet links below to go to topics beginning with that letter, or look through the full list of topics below to find ones that interest you.

    A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

                Aboriginal Affairs
                Abortion
                Accountability
                Afghanistan
                Africa
               Aging
                Agriculture
                Airport Security (see National Security)
                Anti-Terrorism (see Due Process of Law)
                Arctic
                Autism

                Censorship
                Charities
                Children
                Climate Change
                Coast Guard (see Arctic)
                Copyright
                Corporate Governance
                Criminal Justice

                Demographics
                Digital Canada
                Dollar Fluctuations (see International Trade)
                Due Process of Law

                Electoral Boundaries (see Representation by Population)
                Emergency Preparedness (see National Security)
                Employment Insurance
                Energy
                Environment (see also Sustainable Development)
                Euthanasia (see Palliative Care)

                Financial Services
                Fisheries
                Forestry
                Free Trade
                Freedom of Expression (see Censorship)

                Government Agencies and Foundations
                GST (Goods and Services Tax)

                Health Care

                Immigration (see Due Process of Law)
                International Trade (see also Free Trade)

                Marijuana
                Media
                Military

                National Security

                Official Languages

                Palliative Care
                Post-secondary Education
                Poverty (see also Rural Issues)
                Privacy (see Voters List)

               Representation by Population
                Rural Issues

                Science Policy
                Senate Reform
                Sustainable Development

                Taxation (see also GST)
                Terrorism (see Anti-Terrorism)

                Voters List

                Water (see Environment)

                Women