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How Ottawa Spends, 2014-2015The Harper Government - Good to Go? |
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A critical examination of the Harper Government in its eighth year in power as it faces the first serious electoral challenge by a reenergized Liberal Party.
The 2014-15 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics and related fiscal, economic, and social priorities and policies, with an emphasis on the now long-running Harper-linked Senate scandal and the serious challenges to Harper's leadership and controlling style of attack politics.
Contributors from across Canada examine the Conservative government agenda both in terms of its macroeconomic fiscal policy and electoral success since 2006 and also as it plans for a 2015 electoral victory with the aid of a healthy surplus budgetary war chest. Individual chapters examine several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms including the growing strength and nature of the Justin Trudeau-led Liberal Party challenge, the 2014 Harper Economic Action Plan, the demise of federal environmental policy under Harper’s responsible resource development strategy, the Conservative’s crime and punishment agenda, the growing evidence regarding the federal government’s muzzling of scientists and evidence in federal policy formation, and the now five-year story of the Harper creation, treatment, and role of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
Contributors from across Canada examine the Conservative government agenda both in terms of its macroeconomic fiscal policy and electoral success since 2006 and also as it plans for a 2015 electoral victory with the aid of a healthy surplus budgetary war chest. Individual chapters examine several closely linked political, policy, and spending realms including the growing strength and nature of the Justin Trudeau-led Liberal Party challenge, the 2014 Harper Economic Action Plan, the demise of federal environmental policy under Harper’s responsible resource development strategy, the Conservative’s crime and punishment agenda, the growing evidence regarding the federal government’s muzzling of scientists and evidence in federal policy formation, and the now five-year story of the Harper creation, treatment, and role of the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
Details
Part of the How Ottawa Spends Series (number 35 in series)
296 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780773544444
August 2014
Formats: Paperback, eBook
G. Bruce Doern is professor emeritus 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.
Preface vii
1 The Harper Government - Good to Go? 3
G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney
PART ONE: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICY AGENDA AND CHALLENGES
2 Government Retrenchment and Public Service Cuts: A Tale of Two Processes 25
Andrea Rounce and Karine Levasseur
3 The Parliamentary Budget Officer: The First Five Years 40
Ian Lee and Philip Cross
4 Crime or Punishment: What Is the Harper Justice Agenda? 53
Craig Jones
5 Justin Trudeau and Leadership Idolization: The Centralization of Power in Canadian Politics and Political Parties 66
Craig MacNaughton and Christopher Stoney
6 Coming Full Circle? Ottawa’s Search for Parsimonious Cost and Efficiency Reporting 80
Evert Lindquist
7 Tax Expenditures and Government Program Spending: Reforming the Two “Spending” Worlds for Better Expenditure Management 95
John Lester
8 Harper’s Partisan Wedge Politics: Bad Environmental Policy and Bad Energy Policy 108
Glen Toner and Jennifer McKee
PART TWO: SELECTED POLICY AND DEPARTMENTAL ISSUES AND REALMS
9 One of These Things Is Not Like the Other? Bottom-Up Reform, Open Information, Collaboration, and the Harper Government 125
Amanda Clarke
10 How Foundations Spend: Is the Current 3.5% Asset Disbursement the Right Public Policy? 139
Iryna Kryvoruchko and Ken Rasmussen
11 Managing Canada’s Water: The Harper Era 152
Davide P. Cargnello, Mark Brunet, Matthew Retallack, and Robert Slater
12 The National Shipbuilding Model for Goverment Procurement: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff 165
Jennifer Spence
13 How Accurate Is the Harper Government’s Misinformation? Scientific Evidence and Scientists in Federal Policy Making 178
Kathryn O’Hara and Paul Dufour
14 CIDA, the Mining Sector, and the Orthodoxy of Economic Conservatism in Harper Decision Making 192
Ruby Dagher
Contributors 205
1 The Harper Government - Good to Go? 3
G. Bruce Doern and Christopher Stoney
PART ONE: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICY AGENDA AND CHALLENGES
2 Government Retrenchment and Public Service Cuts: A Tale of Two Processes 25
Andrea Rounce and Karine Levasseur
3 The Parliamentary Budget Officer: The First Five Years 40
Ian Lee and Philip Cross
4 Crime or Punishment: What Is the Harper Justice Agenda? 53
Craig Jones
5 Justin Trudeau and Leadership Idolization: The Centralization of Power in Canadian Politics and Political Parties 66
Craig MacNaughton and Christopher Stoney
6 Coming Full Circle? Ottawa’s Search for Parsimonious Cost and Efficiency Reporting 80
Evert Lindquist
7 Tax Expenditures and Government Program Spending: Reforming the Two “Spending” Worlds for Better Expenditure Management 95
John Lester
8 Harper’s Partisan Wedge Politics: Bad Environmental Policy and Bad Energy Policy 108
Glen Toner and Jennifer McKee
PART TWO: SELECTED POLICY AND DEPARTMENTAL ISSUES AND REALMS
9 One of These Things Is Not Like the Other? Bottom-Up Reform, Open Information, Collaboration, and the Harper Government 125
Amanda Clarke
10 How Foundations Spend: Is the Current 3.5% Asset Disbursement the Right Public Policy? 139
Iryna Kryvoruchko and Ken Rasmussen
11 Managing Canada’s Water: The Harper Era 152
Davide P. Cargnello, Mark Brunet, Matthew Retallack, and Robert Slater
12 The National Shipbuilding Model for Goverment Procurement: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff 165
Jennifer Spence
13 How Accurate Is the Harper Government’s Misinformation? Scientific Evidence and Scientists in Federal Policy Making 178
Kathryn O’Hara and Paul Dufour
14 CIDA, the Mining Sector, and the Orthodoxy of Economic Conservatism in Harper Decision Making 192
Ruby Dagher
Contributors 205
