This publication provides an overview of key conclusions from research work carried out by scholars associated with CETD since the project was initiated in 2008.��

Read the Capstone Report here.

CETD has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) under its Strategic Knowledge Clusters Program (2008-2017).

The series was prepared for the conference “Canada and Europe: Converging or Diverging Responses to International and Domestic Challenges?” held at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University on March 10-11, 2016. The conference was sponsored by the Canada-Europe��Transatlantic Dialogue (CETD) and the Faculty of Public Affairs Research Month at �Ӱ�ԭ�� University. CETD receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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(A)��Canada-Europe Relations: A New Era of Enhanced Cooperation?

I. Opportunities and Challenges in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation

:��“The Canada-European Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA): A Convergence of Canadian and EU Interests”

: “Between a Rock and A Hard Place: Canada’s Trade and Investment Policy Choices from NAFTA to CETA”

II. Crisis Management and the EU-Canada Strategic Partnership

: “Russia’s integration initiatives:��Dilemmas for the European Union”

III.��Europe and Canada Respond to Challenges of Environmental Sustainability

: “The European experience of climate change��policy-making: Lessons for Canada”

IV.��Challenges in Migration and Integration of Immigrants

“The fragmentation of the European migration system”

: “Balancing Citizenship Rights in an Age of Globalization”

(B) Europe and Canada: Facing New Social and Political Challenges

V.��After the Euro Crisis

: “A Canadian Perspective on the Euro Area’s New Financial Governance Regime”

: “EU Newer Member States: Monetary Integration Maturity”

: “Saving the Euro: Policies, Institutions, and Politics in the Eurozone Crisis”

VI. Inclusive Growth, Social Innovation, and Social Inclusion

:��La question de l’inclusion sociale au��Québec

VII. Challenges of Democratic Legitimacy: Confronting Citizen Apathy and the Democratic Deficit��

: “Voice vs. Votes: Adapting the Institutions and Processes of Direct Democracy to Improve Citizen Engagement and Participation”

��VIII. Democratic Governance and Multi-Level Systems

: “Policy coordination between different levels of government: What have we learned from Canada-Europe comparative research?”

: “The Politics of Boundary Control in Multi-Level Systems: Europe and Canada Compared”

“The persistent invisibility of gender in EU policy,” European Integration online Papers (EIoP), Special Issue 1, Vol. 18 (2014).

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ABSTRACT: In this special issue of the European Integration online Papers (EIoP), we reconsider the practicability of gender mainstreaming in the European Union (EU) and its traction in the European integration project more broadly. We follow the feminist institutionalist turn which seeks to bring contemporary feminist insights and new institutionalism’s various schools of thought to bear on one another. Out of this synergy comes the recognition of gender as an inherent feature of institutions and the opening up of new avenues to interrogate the dynamics of power and change. Collectively, we argue that the EU is a battleground where gender equality concerns must struggle against a masculine stronghold. We question whether there are better means to bring about gender mainstreaming’s transformative triumph.

Table of contents:

– MacRae and Weiner

– Debusscher

– Mergaert and Lombardo

��– Allwood

��– Kantola

The publication is available to download, and the articles, below.

Oliver Schmidtke

Dagmar Soennecken

Elke Winter

The concept of intersectionality has been described as one of the most important theoretical insights of the Women’s Studies literature (McCall 2005, 1771). Although this perspective was first developed within Women’s and Gender studies, it has quickly attracted the attention of other disciplinary fields. Today, important contributions are being made in the area of intersectionality research, especially in Europe. This report aims to review recent publications on the subject in Europe.

L’innovation sociale est un concept qui remonte à quelques décennies déjà, mais qui connaît un grain de popularité ces dernières années. Dans ce court document d’information, nous appliquerons le concept d’innovation sociale au secteur logement social au Canada et en Europe. Afin d’analyser les différentes stratégies canadiennes et européennes en matière la diversité sociale en habitation, nous nous pencherons en détail sur les cas concret d’intégration de logement social de Toronto, Paris, Bristol et Munich.

Donna Wood recently returned to Canada after a five-week tour of Europe, where she gave seven presentations in three countries (Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom) intended to encourage dialogue on federalism between Canada and the European Union. Her key message in the talks was that, when it comes to comparative federalism, it is time for scholars in Canada and the EU to talk more.

Policy Paper by Alexander Gunn, University of Victoria

Cities are increasingly identified in Canadian academic and policy literature as being an integral support structure for the settlement and integration of immigrants to Canada – often serving as the “first point of contact” between newcomers and government due to the day-to-day dependence of immigrants on various local public services.��The ability of municipal��governments to assist in the immigrant settlement process, however, is continually challenged by��their weak fiscal capacities and their limited (or non-existent) role in the development of��immigration policy – a field that has traditionally been dominated by the federal and provincial��levels of government.��This paper will examine how various Canadian cities are overcoming these challenges in order to become “policy innovators” in the fields of immigrant settlement and��integration, often working in collaboration with their federal and provincial counterparts as well��as with local businesses and civil society organizations.��

At��Metropolis BC’s final event��held in Vancouver on September 12, 2012, Dr. Schmidtke presented findings of the capstone report.

A partner organization of CETD,��Metropolis BC was an active research centre from 1996 to 2013.