Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)

Mission

Founded in 1972, the Institute for Research on Public Policy is an independent, national, bilingual, not-for-profit organization. The IRPP seeks to improve public policy in Canada by generating research, providing insight and informing debate on current and emerging policy issues facing Canadians and their governments.

The Institute’s independence is assured by an endowment fund, to which federal and provincial governments and the private sector contributed in the early 1970s.

The Institute publishes Policy Options, a public policy magazine committed to bringing viewpoints from a diversity of voices in both official Canadian languages.