A Canadian Priorities Agenda
A Canadian Priorities Agenda

Author: France St-Hilaire

Publisher: IRPP

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9780886452032

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Rising income inequality has been at the forefront of public debate in Canada in recent years, yet there is still much to learn about the economic forces driving the distribution of earnings and income in this country and how they might evolve in the future. With research showing that the tax-and-transfer system is losing the ability to counteract income disparity, the need for policy-makers to understand the factors at play is all the more urgent. Income Inequality provides a comprehensive review of Canadian inequality trends, including changing earnings and income dynamics among the middle class and top earners, wage and job polarization across provinces, and persistent poverty among vulnerable groups. The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), in collaboration with the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network (CLSRN), presents new evidence by some of the country’s leading experts on the impact of skills and education, unionization and labour relations laws, as well as the complex interplay of redistributive policies and politics over time. Amid growing anxieties about the economic prospects of the middle class, Income Inequality will serve to inform the public discourse on inequality, an issue that ultimately concerns all Canadians.

House of Commons Procedure and Practice
House of Commons Procedure and Practice

Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1216

ISBN-13:

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This reference book is primarily a procedural work which examines the many forms, customs, and practices which have been developed and established for the House of Commons since Confederation in 1867. It provides a distinctive Canadian perspective in describing procedure in the House up to the end of the first session of the 36th Parliament in Sept. 1999. The material is presented with full commentary on the historical circumstances which have shaped the current approach to parliamentary business. Key Speaker's rulings and statements are also documented and the considerable body of practice, interpretation, and precedents unique to the Canadian House of Commons is amply illustrated. Chapters of the book cover the following: parliamentary institutions; parliaments and ministries; privileges and immunities; the House and its Members; parliamentary procedure; the physical & administrative setting; the Speaker & other presiding officers; the parliamentary cycle; sittings of the House; the daily program; oral & written questions; the process of debate; rules of order & decorum; the curtailment of debate; special debates; the legislative process; delegated legislation; financial procedures; committees of the whole House; committees; private Members' business; public petitions; private bills practice; and the parliamentary record. Includes index.

Parliament, the Budget and Gender
Parliament, the Budget and Gender

Author: Joachim Wehner

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 9789291421879

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This handbook, jointly produced with the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank Institute and the United Nations Fund for Women, was inspired by a series of regional and national seminars on Parliament and the Budgetary Process, Including from a Gender Perspective. Intended as a reference tool, it sets out practical examples of parliament's active engagement in the budgetary process, seeking to advance parliaments' own institutional capacities to make a positive impact on the budget, and to equip parliament, its members and parliamentary staff with the necessary tools to examine the budget from a gender perspective.--Publisher's description.

Working Without Commitments
Working Without Commitments

Author: Wayne Lewchuk

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2011-01-17

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0773586261

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Working Without Commitments offers a new understanding of the social and health impacts of this change in the modern workplace, where outsourcing, limited term contracts, and the elimination of pensions and health benefits have become the new standard. Using information from interviews and surveys with workers in less permanent employment, the authors show how precarious employment affects the health of workers, labour productivity, and the sustainability of the traditional family model. A timely and relevant work for uncertain economic times, Working Without Commitments provides helpful information for understanding the present workplace and securing better futures for today's workforce.

The Politics of Public Money
The Politics of Public Money

Author: David A. Good

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0802095038

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" Public money is perhaps the quintessential currency of influence for politicians and public servants inside government. It shapes how they undertake the nations business and it impacts on the standards of living in the country. The Politics of Public Money examines the extent to which the influence of players in the budgetary process is shifting from a bilateral relationship between departmental spenders and central guardians to a more complex multilateral relationship involving spenders and central guardians, as well as priority setters and financial watchdogs. David Good analyzes this shift of influence in terms of a broader societal change from an old village, conditioned by old norms of behaviour, to a new town that brings with it new ideas about how much public money should be spent, where it should be spent, and how it should be managed. To better understand the changing situation, Good develops a new framework for analyzing the politics and management of public money. This framework is used to explore the interactions among budget players and, perhaps the most central of all, the relationship between Prime Minister and Minister of Finance. As an analysis of the changing budgetary process and an examination of the promises and pitfalls of budgetary reform, The Politics of Public Money sheds new light on the role of insiders in influencing our governments spending. "

Alternative Federal Budget 2005: It s Time
Alternative Federal Budget 2005: It s Time

Author: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Publisher: Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 0886274257

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As different sides High-income Canadians and businesses have of the political spectrum present their cases, the been richly rewarded for their sacrifices in the government appears content, in the words of fight against the deficit with the program of the C. D. Howe Institute, to "let the debate be- $100 billion in tax cuts that was introduced in gin." 2000. [...] The chapters of the ing for health care to the provinces with an in- 2005 AFB are dedicated to outlining priorities crease of almost $10 billion over the next three in a range of social programs and infrastruc- years, the Canada Social Transfer remains the 6. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Alternative Federal Budget 2005: It's Time poor cousin of the Canada Health Transfer. [...] The following provides a summary Canada's local governments that ultimately suf- of the key measures needed to eliminate pov- fered the major brunt of federal and provincial erty in Canada and a summary of the main downloading, as is shown in the chapter on Fed- measures in the different chapters of the AFB. [...] The sponsibilities from the federal to the provincial AFB will build on the great generosity shown to the municipal level without the accompany- by Canadians in responding to the tsunami dis- ing funds, crumbling infrastructure, and accel- aster by increasing development assistance by erating inequality between individuals, commu- 12%-15% per year in order to reach the goal of nities and provinces [...] Reductions in federal government departed from the pledge employment insurance benefits and the elimi- of 50/50 cost-sharing in the late 1970s and early nation of the Canada Assistance Plan have 1980s, but it was forced into sharp relief by the shifted the burden of dealing with unemploy- substantial cuts in Ottawa's share of funding ment and poverty away from the federal gov- imposed in the 1995.