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How Ottawa Spends, 2012-2013The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition |
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A critical examination of the federal government policy agenda in the context of Canada's opposition power structure and the global debt crisis.
Continuing its tradition of current, exemplary scholarship, the 2012-13 edition of How Ottawa Spends casts a critical eye at national politics, priorities, and policies, with an emphasis on the Conservative majority's mandated austerity measures and budget-cutting strategies.
Leading scholars from across Canada examine a new era of majority government and a transformed political opposition both in Parliament and in provincial politics. Several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms are examined, including corporate tax reform, Conservative Party social policy, regional economic development, science and technology investments, Canada-US perimeter security and trade agreements, the rise and fall of regulatory regimes, and Canadian health care. Related governance issues such as federal infrastructure program impacts, the Harper government's Economic Action Plan impacts in Ontario, and community colleges in the federal innovation agenda, are also discussed in detail.
Leading scholars from across Canada examine a new era of majority government and a transformed political opposition both in Parliament and in provincial politics. Several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms are examined, including corporate tax reform, Conservative Party social policy, regional economic development, science and technology investments, Canada-US perimeter security and trade agreements, the rise and fall of regulatory regimes, and Canadian health care. Related governance issues such as federal infrastructure program impacts, the Harper government's Economic Action Plan impacts in Ontario, and community colleges in the federal innovation agenda, are also discussed in detail.
Details
Part of the How Ottawa Spends Series (number 33 in series)
298 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773540941
September 2012
Formats: Paperback, eBook
G. Bruce Doern is professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University and in the Politics Department at the University of Exeter.
Christopher Stoney is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.
Christopher Stoney is associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.
Table of Contents
Preface vii
1 The Harper Majority, Budget Cuts, and the New Opposition 3
G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney
Part 1: Politics and the Changing Macro Realities
2 The Harper Election Victory, the Liberals, and Debate Over
Corporate Tax Reform 35
Ian Lee
3 The Hobbesian Prime Minister and the Night Watchman State:
Social Policy under the Harper Conservatives 53
Michael J. Prince
4 Playing Against Type? Regional Economic Development Policy
in the Harper Era 71
Neil Bradford and David A. Wolfe
5 Science and Technology in Canada: Government Investment
at a Crossroad? 89
Peter W.B. Phillips and David Castle
6 Toward a Perimeter: Incremental Adaptation or a New Paradigm
for Canada-US Security and Trade Relations? 106
Geoffrey E. Hale
Part 2: Selected Issues and Departmental Realms
7 The Rise and Fall of Regulatory Regimes: Extending
the Life-cycle Approach 127
Derek Ireland, Eric Milligan, Kernaghan Webb, and Wei Xie
8 Public Private Partnership Canada and the P3 Fund: Shedding
Light on a New Meso Institutional Arrangement 145
Christian Bordeleau
9 Pharmacare and Federal Drug Expenditures: A Prescription
for Change 161
Marc-André Gagnon
10 Public Policy as an Inquiring System: The Case of Canadian
Health Care 173
Ruth Hubbard and Gilles Paquet
11 Federal Infrastructure Program Impacts: Perceptions
at the Community Level 190
Scott Edward Bennett
12 How Ontario Was Won: The Harper Economic Action Plan
in Ontario, 2009-2011 207
Patrice Dutil and Byoungjun Park
13 Community Colleges and Applied Research in the Federal
National Innovation Agenda 227
Paul J. Madgett
14 Doing the North American Two-step on a Global Stage: Canada,
its G8 Muskoka Initiative, and Safe Abortion Funding 242
Melissa Haussman and Lisa Mills
Appendix A: Canadian Political Facts and Trends 261
Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends 273
Contributors 287
