A Canadian priorities agenda : policy choices to improve economic and social well-being / edited by Jeremy Leonard, Christopher Ragan and France St-Hilaire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

St-Hilaire, France.

Ragan, Christopher T. S.

Leonard, Jeremy, 1967-

Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political planning--Canada.

Political planning.

Canada.

Canada--Social policy.

Social policy.

Canada--Economic policy.

Economic policy.

Environmental policy--Canada.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 573 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal : Institute for Research on Public Policy = l'Institut de recherche en politiques publiques, [2007]

Summary:

A Canadian Priorities Agenda is the culmination of a two-year IRPP project designed to initiate a broad-based and informed public debate on the economic and social policy choices and priorities for Canada over the medium term. The underlying theme of the project is scarcity of resources and the need for choice: the everyday reality for policy-makers is that governments have limited means at their disposal - be it revenue, manpower or political capital - and must therefore choose carefully which policies to pursue and which to leave behind.

One key objective in this project was to bring together some of the best policy minds in the country to examine and deliberate these choices and priorities. The 45 individuals who played a role in the CPA process - the agenda-setters who helped identify the broad policy challenges at issue, the analysts who submitted their policy recommendations, the critics who provided their assessment of the policies proposed, and the judges whose task it was to review the evidence and arguments presented and assemble a policy package from the proposals on offer - certainly qualify. Each has contemplated, analyzed and debated Canadian policy for many years. Most have experience either in government or in advising government at the highest levels.

Part I consists of eight sections, one for each of the broad policy challenges. In each section, the analysts present the evidence and make the case for their policy proposals, which are then scrutinized in two commentaries.

Contents:

Part I The Policy Challenges

Human Capital: Investing in Human Capital: Policy Priorities for Canada / W. Craig Riddell 13

Smart Human Capital Policy: An Alternative Perspective / Serge Coulombe 57

Education and Human Capital: Reconciling Policy Imperatives and Policy Design / Jane Gaskell 67

Climate Change: Canadian Policies for Deep Greenhouse Gas Reductions / Mark Jaccard, Nic Rivers 77

Slowing, Then Reducing, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Is Important but Will Not Be Easy / Christopher Green 107

Time to Actually Begin / James Meadowcroft 115

Natural Capital: Securing Natural Capital and Ecological Goods and Services for Canada / Nancy Olewiler 125

Innovative Conservation Policies for Canada That Really Integrate the Environment and the Economy / Wiktor Adamowicz 161

Nature as Capital: Concerns and Considerations / Peter A. Victor 171

Population Aging: Some Economic and Social Consequences of Population Aging / David K. Foot 181

Population Aging: The Risk of Tunnel Vision / Peter Hicks 215

Population Aging: Better than the Alternative / Susan A. McDaniel 223

Economic Security: A Better Income Security System for All Canadians / Jean-Yves Duclos 233

An Alternative Proposal on Income Security / David A. Green 267

The Practitioner's Perspective on Income Security Reform / Kathy O'Hara, Allen Sutherland 277

Health Outcomes: Improving Health Outcomes in Canada / Robert Evans, Clyde Hertzman, Steve Morgan 291

Next Steps in the Health Policy Wars? / Raisa Deber 327

Canada's High Poverty Rate Is the Greatest Impediment to Better Health Outcomes / Dennis Raphael 337

Productivity: Three Policies to Increase Productivity Growth in Canada / Andrew Sharpe 353

An Alternative Policy Script to Boost Canadian Productivity Growth / Don Drummond 389

The Canadian Productivity Conundrum / Richard G. Harris 397

Trade and Globalization: Canadian Engagement in the Global Economy / Michael Hart 405

Constructing Constructive Engagement / Jonathan T. Fried 435

Engage the United States, Forget the Rest? / Keith Head 445

Part II The Policy Choices

Rising to the Challenges of Economic Transformation / Wendy Dobson 457

Drawing a Policy Road Map for Canada / Alain Dubuc 473

Choosing Policies to Build and Sustain Well-Being / John F. Helliwell 487

Navigating the Shoals: The Search for Canadian Policy Solutions / Richard G. Lipsey 499

Policy Priorities for Canada: Making Choices / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy 515

Think Small and Do No Harm / William Watson 533

Part III The Implications

Epilogue: Some Reflections on the Judges' Policy Choices / Jeremy Leonard, Christopher Ragan, France St-Hilaire 549.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780886452032

0886452031

OCLC:

173808844