Citizen Essays
What would Canada look like if oil cost $400 a barrel in the year 2020? How would the country function, or not, in the aftermath of the separation of Quebec in the coming decade? Where and how would we live if global temperatures rose dramatically in the next fourteen years? What will our cities look like by 2020? What forces could transform our economy, the healthcare system or role in the world?
The Canada in 2020 citizen essays provide the opportunity to anyone and everyone to write their own 800 word vision as to what single issue, event or trend could transform Canada by the year 2020.
The essay that generates the most comments and highest overall ranking by visitors to this website before January 31, 2007 will win a $2020 cash prize and be published in La Presse and the Toronto Star.
Essays can be submitted in either French or English. To submit an citizen essay you must register with this website. Click here to register now. For full the full contest rules click here.
Featured Citizen Essay
Canada’s Cloudy Crystal Ball
by Rudyard Griffiths
What single issue or event could transform Canada by the year 2020? This was the question we put to twenty leading thinkers last Canada Day. Taken together, the essays this distinguished group wrote for The Star - over the past six months - paint the picture of a country bursting with potential yet lacking the collective will to tackle a host of pressing future challenges.
Consider the following: the earth’s temperature rose half a degree Celsius over the course of the last 140 years – the period of industrialization in the West. If carbon emissions continue to increase at current rates experts predict that global temperatures could rise by a two full degrees by 2020. read more...
Other Citizen Essays
The renewal of Canada - a deeper Democratic process by Brenda and Adrian, September 21, 2006
A Canadian Unity Manifesto by Dave Hayward, August 28, 2006
Redefining Federalism by Jérôme Melançon, August 3, 2006
Peace, Order and Good Government - An Optimist's Opus by EMang, July 26, 2006
Canada's Golden Age by Steve, July 7, 2006
Canada: Defined by Water in 2020 by cdlu, July 3, 2006
Canada 2020 by John Matheson, July 1, 2006
Canada in 2020 by Orsino, June 30, 2006
The Challenges Facing Canada, by Rudyard Griffiths, June 30, 2006
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