How Ottawa spends, 2005-2006 : managing the minority / edited by G. Bruce Doern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doern, G. Bruce.

Carleton University. School of Public Administration.

Series:

How Ottawa Spends Series ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government spending policy--Canada.

Government spending policy.

Canada--Appropriations and expenditures.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The twenty-sixth edition of How Ottawa Spends examines the policy initiatives, priorities, and initial spending of Martin's Liberals in an era where a political coronation seemed inevitable but high expectations had to be managed downwards almost immediately. Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Public Administration's annual study focuses on key issues, including Canada-US cross-border relations, health care reform, public safety and security, and the role of public inquiries. A less-than-buoyant fiscal surplus, escalating concerns about Liberal Party ethics and corruption, and a growing volatility in public opinion are examined, as are Canadians' increasingly uncertain views about the new leadership, particularly after a ten-year hold on power by the Liberal Party. Contributors include Frances Abele (Carleton University), Barbara Allen (University of Birmingham and Carleton University), Gerry Baier (University of British Columbia), Herman Bakvis (Dalhousie University), Gerry Boychuk (University of Waterloo), Douglas Brown (Queen's University), John Chenier (ARC Publications and the Lobby Monitor), Michael Dewing (Library of Parliament), Monica Gattinger (University of Ottawa), Geoffrey Hale (University of Lethbridge), Ian Hodges (Carleton University), Rachel Laforest (Queen's University), Russell Lapointe (Carleton University), Allan Maslove (Carleton University), Michael Prince (University of Victoria), Jack Stillborn (Library of Parliament), Christopher Stoney (Carleton University), and Reg Whitaker (University of Victoria).

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Preface; 1 The Martin Liberals (and the Harper Conservatives): The Politics of Governing Precariously; PART 1 MACRO CHOICES AND CHALLENGES; PART 2 SELECTED POLICY, POLITICAL AND BUDGETARY REALMS; Appendix A: Canadian Political Facts and Trends; Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends; Abstracts/Resumes; Contributors; 2 Health and Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements: Lost Opportunity; 3 How Ottawa Gambles: Rolling the Dice in Health Care Reform; 4 Like a Sub Adrift: Defence Policy as a Litmus Test for the Martin Government; 5 Made in Canada? The New Public Safety Paradigm

6 Symbolism, Surfacing, Succession, and Substance: Martin's Aboriginal Policy Style7 Cross-Border Relations: Moving Beyond the Politics of Uncertainty?; 8 Canada-United States Electricity Relations: Policy Coordination and Multi-level Associative Governance; 9 Executive Federalism, the Democratic Deficit, and Parliamentary Reform; 10 Into the Long Grass? Evaluating the Role of Commissions of Inquiry In the New Mandate; 11 Does Parliament Care? Parliamentary Committees and the Estimates

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-86388-6

9786612863882

0-7735-7330-5

OCLC:

923230299