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Canada: The State of the Federation 2017Canada at 150: Federalism and Democratic Renewal |
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In October 2015, the federal Liberals came to power with sweeping plans to revamp Canada's democratic and federal institutions - a modernizing agenda intended to revitalize Canada's democratic architecture. The centrepiece of the agenda was the replacement of Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system, but they also promised to revitalize relations with the provinces, bring Indigenous Peoples into the intergovernmental fold, and to change the ways in which senators and Supreme Court justices are appointed.
How has the reform agenda faired? Has it resulted in a more effective and democratic set of political and federal institutions? Or has it largely failed to deliver on these objectives? What, more broadly, is the state of Canada's democratic and federal institutions? The Queen's Institute of Intergovernmental Relations used the occasion of Canada's 150th birthday to examine these pressing issues.
The 2017 volume in the State of the Federation series focuses on enduring questions about the functioning of federalism and intergovernmental relations in Canada, including how we should evaluate the quality of Canada's institutions and practices in light of our federal structure, and how current institutional arrangements and their possible alternatives fare according to these criteria.
How has the reform agenda faired? Has it resulted in a more effective and democratic set of political and federal institutions? Or has it largely failed to deliver on these objectives? What, more broadly, is the state of Canada's democratic and federal institutions? The Queen's Institute of Intergovernmental Relations used the occasion of Canada's 150th birthday to examine these pressing issues.
The 2017 volume in the State of the Federation series focuses on enduring questions about the functioning of federalism and intergovernmental relations in Canada, including how we should evaluate the quality of Canada's institutions and practices in light of our federal structure, and how current institutional arrangements and their possible alternatives fare according to these criteria.
Details
Part of the Canada: The State of the Federation Series (number 25 in series)
324 Pages, 6 x 9
10 figures, 6 tables
Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
ISBN 9781553394587
October 2019
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant is director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University.
Kyle Hanniman is associate director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University.
Kyle Hanniman is associate director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University.
vii / Acknowledgements
ix / Biographies
1 / Introduction
Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant and Kyle Hanniman
GENERAL ASSESSMENTS
19 / 1 Federalism Reform and Democratic Renewal for a Country Based on Incomplete Conquests
Peter H. Russell
33 / 2 Canadian Federalism, Democracy, and Political Legitimacy
Thomas O. Hueglin
DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS
59 / 3 Notwithstanding the Charter: Does Section 33 Accommodate Federalism?
Janet L. Hiebert
85 / 4 The Challenge of Modernizing an Upper Chamber of a Federal Parliament in a Constitutional Monarchy: The Senate of Canada in the Twenty-first Century
David E. Smith
97 / 5 The Perils and Paranoia of Senate Reform: Does Senate Independence Threaten Canadian Democracy?
Emmett Macfarlane
111 / 6 Competing Diversities: Representing “Canada” on the Supreme Court
Erin Crandall and Robert Schertzer
133 / 7 Who Participated? Examining Citizen Participation in Electoral Reform
Patricia Mockler and Jonathan Rose
161 / 8 Normative Justifications for Democratic Design: The Case of Canadian Electoral Reform
Anna Drake and Margaret Moore
181 / 9 The Federalist Case for Electoral Reform in Canada
Laura Levick
FEDERALISM FOR DIVERSITY: FRENCH AND ENGLISH
203 / 10 Policy on Québec Affirmation and Canadian Relations
Jean-Marc Fournier
211 / 11 Federalism “Plus”? Carving a Space of Non-Territorial Autonomy in a Federal State: The Case of Official-Language Minorities in Canada
Stéphanie Chouinard
FEDERALISM FOR DIVERSITY: INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE
227 / 12 Beyond Crown Sovereignty: Good Governance and Treaty Constitutionalism
Kiera Ladner
253 / 13 Nation Tables and the BCTC Tic-Tac-Toe?
Tony Penikett
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
271 / 14 Imagining Canada: Narratives of Federalism in Intergovernmental Organizations
Jennifer Wallner
291 / 15 The Politics of Federal-Local Intergovernmental Relations in Canada
Zachary Spicer
ix / Biographies
1 / Introduction
Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant and Kyle Hanniman
GENERAL ASSESSMENTS
19 / 1 Federalism Reform and Democratic Renewal for a Country Based on Incomplete Conquests
Peter H. Russell
33 / 2 Canadian Federalism, Democracy, and Political Legitimacy
Thomas O. Hueglin
DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS
59 / 3 Notwithstanding the Charter: Does Section 33 Accommodate Federalism?
Janet L. Hiebert
85 / 4 The Challenge of Modernizing an Upper Chamber of a Federal Parliament in a Constitutional Monarchy: The Senate of Canada in the Twenty-first Century
David E. Smith
97 / 5 The Perils and Paranoia of Senate Reform: Does Senate Independence Threaten Canadian Democracy?
Emmett Macfarlane
111 / 6 Competing Diversities: Representing “Canada” on the Supreme Court
Erin Crandall and Robert Schertzer
133 / 7 Who Participated? Examining Citizen Participation in Electoral Reform
Patricia Mockler and Jonathan Rose
161 / 8 Normative Justifications for Democratic Design: The Case of Canadian Electoral Reform
Anna Drake and Margaret Moore
181 / 9 The Federalist Case for Electoral Reform in Canada
Laura Levick
FEDERALISM FOR DIVERSITY: FRENCH AND ENGLISH
203 / 10 Policy on Québec Affirmation and Canadian Relations
Jean-Marc Fournier
211 / 11 Federalism “Plus”? Carving a Space of Non-Territorial Autonomy in a Federal State: The Case of Official-Language Minorities in Canada
Stéphanie Chouinard
FEDERALISM FOR DIVERSITY: INDIGENOUS GOVERNANCE
227 / 12 Beyond Crown Sovereignty: Good Governance and Treaty Constitutionalism
Kiera Ladner
253 / 13 Nation Tables and the BCTC Tic-Tac-Toe?
Tony Penikett
INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
271 / 14 Imagining Canada: Narratives of Federalism in Intergovernmental Organizations
Jennifer Wallner
291 / 15 The Politics of Federal-Local Intergovernmental Relations in Canada
Zachary Spicer
