Canada in 2020 is a joint project by the Star, LaPresse, the CBC and the Dominion Institute aimed at highlighting what Canadians think will be the single most important issue facing Canada in the year 2020.

From July until November, the Star and LaPresse will publish a series of essays by 20 leading Canadian commentators on the issue or event they believe could transform Canada by 2020.

The CBC will broadcast interviews with the authors and documentaries about their ideas.

Canadians can add their voices to the debate through thestar.com/2020 or the project's website, twenty-twenty.ca. There, they can also enter an essay contest conducted by the Dominion Institute on what issue or event could have the greatest impact on Canada by the year 2020.

You can add your comments and read what others are saying in response to the essays. Log on at their Forum http://www.twenty-twenty.ca/forum.

Only about half of the 20 prominent Canadians have posted their essays so far, and this is late in September! The total list is Andrew Cohen, Richard Hétu, Daniel Stoffman, Pierre Fortin, Don Drummond, Jennifer Welsh, Roger Gibbins, Rachel A. Qitsualik, George Elliott Clarke,
(from here on, no essays yet) David Suzuki, Joseph Facal, Mark Kingwell, Jim Stanford, John Ralston Saul, Stéphane Kelly, Chantal Hébert, David Foot, David Walker, Irshad Manji, and Neil Bissoondath.

I can't say I recognize enough of them to say how well balanced this list is. Can you?

Postcarbon and relocalization groups could usefully get on the bandwagon and post to the forum for Canada 2020, so far only one post out of 250+ has anything to do with energy depletion.

Ian