How Ottawa Spends, 2006-2007
How Ottawa Spends, 2006-2007

Author: Doern G. Bruce

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2006-06-15

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0773576266

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In the twenty-seventh edition of How Ottawa Spends, leading Canadian scholars examine the Tory agenda in relation to the changing dynamics of a resurgent Western Canadian power base, Quebec-Canada relations, Canada-U.S. tensions, and key Martin policies. Contributors explore the challenges that have been created by unsustainable promises made by both major parties on expenditures and growth. They also look at the thorny issues of federal procurement policy and ethics, fiscal policy, energy policy, equalization and energy revenues, cancer control, patent policy and access to emergency medicines, the regulation of tobacco, gambling, and alcohol, and efforts to review spending. Contributors include Barbara Allen (Birmingham and Carleton), Malcolm Bird (Carleton), Keith Brownsey (Mount Royal College), Bruce Doern (Carleton and Exeter), Geoffrey Hale (Lethbridge), John Langford (Victoria), Evert Lindquist (Victoria), Lisa Mills (Carleton), Tanya Neima (Carleton), Andre Plourde (Alberta), Michael Prince (Victoria), Andrea Rounce (Carleton), Christopher Stoney (Carleton), Allan Tupper (British Columbia), and Ashley Weber (Carleton).

Canada's Century
Canada's Century

Author: C.E.S. Franks

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1995-06-27

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0773565337

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Governance, Quebec's place in Canada, French-English relations, multiculturalism, the party system, electoral processes, the regulatory function, and aspects of culture and social science are among the subjects addressed. Contributors include Gérard Bergeron, Edwin R. Black, Alan Cairns, R.K. Carty, Léon Dion, O.P. Dwivedi, Iain Gow, C.E.S. Franks, William P. Irvine, Jane Jenson, Jean Laponce, Vincent Lemieux, Peter Leslie, Liora Salter, Richard Schultz, Richard Simeon, H.G. Thorburn, and V. Seymour Wilson. Together the essays provide a comprehensive survey of modern Canadian political thought. Canada's Century will be a valuable reference book for scholars and students of Canadian politics.

How Ottawa Spends, 1997-1998
How Ottawa Spends, 1997-1998

Author: Gene Swimmer

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1997-05-15

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0773584927

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In this volume eleven areas of government policy are analyzed, including economic management (deficit control, trade promotion and employment), national unity social policies (child care, elderly benefits and housing) and ethics. Overall, Liberal policies bear a much stronger resemblance to Tory Blue philosophy than their own Red Book.

Welfare Hot Buttons
Welfare Hot Buttons

Author: Sylvia B. Bashevkin

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2002-09-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1442655461

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Welfare Hot Buttons provides one of the first comparative assessments of contemporary social policy change in three Western countries: Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Sylvia Bashevkin probes the fate of single mothers on social assistance during the period when three "third way" political executives were in office – Bill Clinton (US), Jean Chrétien (Canada), and Tony Blair (Great Britain) – and argues that despite seemingly progressive campaign rhetoric, the social assistance policy realities under each of these three leaders were in crucial respects more punitive and restrictive than those of their neo-conservative predecessors in the 1980s. Bashevkin addresses even more contentious issues in her study, including the question of whether Anglo-American welfare states are being eclipsed by what she views as newly emergent duty states. In her comparative approach and in her substantive analysis, Bashevkin makes an original and critical contribution to the existing body of literature on social policy.

How Ottawa Spends, 2004-2005
How Ottawa Spends, 2004-2005

Author: G. Bruce Doern

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2004-10-19

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 0773572376

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Drawing on the work of academics and other experts from across Canada, Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration's annual book takes a focused and robust look at an era where a political coronation seemed inevitable but high expectations had to be managed downwards almost immediately. A less-than-buoyant fiscal surplus, escalating concerns about liberal ethics and corruption, and a growing volatility in public opinion are examined as are Canadians' increasingly uncertain views about the new Liberal leadership versus the old Liberal Party's ten-year hold on power. A new Conservative Party and a suddenly feisty New Democratic Party are also a central part of the new 2004-2005 Canadian political and policy milieu.

Women on the Defensive
Women on the Defensive

Author: Sylvia B. Bashevkin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-06-08

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9780226038834

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Bashevkin combines individual voices with policy initiatives to provide the first complete picture of the recent past and uncertain future of contemporary feminism."--BOOK JACKET.