Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
A Descriptive Inventory of Federal-provincial Programs and Activities
Author: Federal-provincial Programs and Activities, a Descriptive Inventory
Author: Federal-provincial Programs and Activities
Author: Canada. Federal-Provincial Relations OfficePublisher:
ISBN: 9780662203469
Category : Grants-in-aid
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The inventory provides the most current information on shared-cost programs and on projects involving joint federal and provincial administration. Basic information is given on each program and activity, along with the source within the federal government from which more detailed information can be obtained. The programs and activities in this inventory are arranged according to the responsibilities of the federal ministers concerned.
Passing the Buck
Author: Kathryn HarrisonPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841796
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Passing the Buck is the first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy. The book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. The author challenges the widespread assumption that federal and provincial governments invariably compete to extend their jurisdiction. Using well-researched case studies and extensive research to support her argument, the author points out that the combination of limited public attention to the environment and strong opposition from potentially regulated interests yields significant political costs and limited political benefits. As a result, for the most part, the federal government has been content to leave environmental protection to the provinces. In effect, the federal system has allowed the federal government to pass the buck to the provinces and shirk the political challenge of environmental protection.
Changing National-subnational Relations in Health
Author: Community Besieged
Author: Garth StevensonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773567755
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
In Community Besieged Garth Stevenson describes the unusual circumstances that allowed English-speaking Quebecers to live in virtual isolation from their francophone neighbours for almost a century after Confederation. He describes their relations with Maurice Duplessis and the Union Nationale and their ambivalent response to the Quiet Revolution. New political issues - language policy, educational reform, sovereignty, and the constitution - undermined the old system of elite accommodation in Quebec, causing conflicts between anglophones and francophones and creating a new sense of anglophone identity that transcends religious differences. The changing relations of Quebec anglophones with the major political parties, as well as the role of newer entities such as Alliance Quebec and the Equality Party, are also examined. Stevenson concludes with a look at the future of anglophones in Quebec. Based in part on interviews with more than sixty English-speaking Quebecers who have played prominent parts in Quebec's political life, Community Besieged is a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the political life of this unique minority at both the federal and provincial level.
Select List of Publications Issued by Senate and House Committees
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Decision at Midnight
Author: Michael HartPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842725
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
On 2 January 1988, Canada and the United States signed what was then the most comprehensive free trade agreeement the world had ever seen. This book is the story of those FTA negotiations, the preparations for and conduct of the negotiations, as well as the ideas and issues behind them. From their unique perspective as participants, Michael Hart, Bill Dymond, and Colin Robertson capture the drama and the personalities involved in the long struggle to make a free trade deal. They describe the extensive consultations, the turf-fighting among insiders, the innate caution of both politicians and bureaucrats, and the need to cultivate powerful constituencies in order to overcome the inertia of conventional wisdom.
Unfulfilled Union, 5th Edition
Author: Garth StevensonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773572082
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
A comprehensive examination of Canadian federalism and its evolution from 1867 to the present.
Unfulfilled Union, 4th Edition
Author: Garth StevensonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575537
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In Unfulfilled Union Garth Stevenson examines such topics as the origins and objectives of Confederation and the BNA Act of 1867, the interpretation of Canada's federal constitution by the courts, the impact of economic regionalism and Quebec nationalism, financial relations between the federal and provincial levels of government, the consequences of federalism for economic policy, the sources of federal-provincial conflicts and the means to resolve them, and the lengthy but inconclusive efforts to reform the constitution through federal-provincial agreement, particularly since Quebec's Quiet Revolution in the 1960s. Although institutional factors such as the defects of the original constitution and the sometimes questionable interpretations of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council are given due attention, Stevenson emphasizes the political economy of Canada, including its relationship with the United States, and the vitality of Quebec nationalism as the major reasons Canada has not achieved the same level of centralization and stability as other federations in the industrialized world. This updated edition of Unfulfilled Union includes a new introduction that discusses the extensive changes that have taken place in Canadian federalism since that time.