Minding the public purse : the fiscal crisis, political trade-offs, and Canada's future / Janice MacKinnon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter-MacKinnon, Janice, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiscal policy--Canada.

Fiscal policy.

Expenditures, Public.

Canada.

Debts, Public--Canada.

Debts, Public.

Expenditures, Public--Canada.

Physical Description:

xiv, 316 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2003]

Contents:

Part 1 The Origins of the Fiscal Crisis: Canary in the Coal Mine 1

1 The Federal Origins of the Fiscal Crisis 3

2 Helping People and Winning Elections: Spend, Spend, Spend 12

3 A Bad Combination: Attacking the Civil Service and Signing Megaprojects 29

Part 2 Managing the Fiscal Crisis: the Provincial Scene 57

4 The New Economy and the New Fights 59

5 The 1993 Fiscal Crisis 97

6 Differing Provincial Approaches to Deficit Reduction 130

Part 3 The National and Federal-Provincial Scene 153

7 Paul Martin and the Finance Ministers' Club 155

8 Regional Divisions: A Tempest in a Teapot and the Mad Hatter's Tea Party 173

9 Working Together? Redesign or Offloading? 191

10 Martin's Landmark 1995 Budget 205

11 Health Care, Health Care, and Only Health Care? 228

12 Going Backward or Forward? Post-Deficit Drift and Exiting Politics 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0773525548

OCLC:

51242953