Municipal Reform in Canada
Municipal Reform in Canada

Author: Joseph Garcea

Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13:

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This book presents an analysis of the purposes, processes, politics, and outcomes of reform for each of the provinces and the northern territories. These analyses reveal that reforms during this turn-of-the-millennium period have reconfigured and in some cases re-empowered municipal governance and shifted the balance of roles, responsibilities, and relationships among city and regional municipal governments, and between them and their respective provincial and territorial governments. The reform process, however, has not gone so far as to "reinvent" municipal governance, and is not likely to in the forseeable future. Indeed, the extent of change in recent years, in many jurisdictions, has brought about a degree of reform fatigue so that the principle actors in provincial-municipal politics may be reticent to pursue new initiatives in the near future.

Report of the Commission on Municipal Reform (Charlottetown and Summerside Areas).
Report of the Commission on Municipal Reform (Charlottetown and Summerside Areas).

Author: Prince Edward Island. Commission on Municipal Reform

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13:

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As part of his mandate, the Commissioner arranged for an independent consultant to carry out a comparative cost-benefit analysis of the various reform models. A request for proposals was advertised in Island newspapers and eight consulting firms responded to the advertisement. This report identifies a number of issues or concerns which arose during both the private and public consultations and, where the Commissioner deemed it appropriate, he has made comment. It examines five different reform models: status quo, annexation, regionalization (two-tier system and inter-municipal agreements), and amalgamation.

Microlog, Canadian Research Index
Microlog, Canadian Research Index

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 1292

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An indexing, abstracting and document delivery service that covers current Canadian report literature of reference value from government and institutional sources.

Welfare Reform in Canada
Welfare Reform in Canada

Author: Daniel Béland

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1442609710

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Welfare Reform in Canada provides systematic knowledge of Canadian social assistance by assessing provincial welfare regimes and emphasizing changes since the late twentieth century. The book examines activation, social investment, and economic inequalities and provides nuanced perspectives on social welfare across Canada's provinces in relation to trends and issues in the country and beyond. These conceptual, international, and historical perspectives inform in-depth case studies of social assistance reform in each province. The key issues of social assistance in Canada, including gender relations, immigrants, Aboriginal peoples, and the impact of activation programs, are addressed, as is the possibility of convergence taking place in provincial welfare policy. This book is the second volume in the Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan.