How Ottawa spends, 2007-2008 : the Harper Conservatives - climate of change / edited by G. Bruce Doern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doern, G. Bruce, Author.

Contributor:

Doern, G. Bruce.

Carleton University. School of Public Administration.

Series:

How Ottawa Spends Series

How Ottawa spends

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harper, Stephen, 1959-.

Harper, Stephen.

Government spending policy--Canada.

Government spending policy.

Canada--Appropriations and expenditures.

Canada.

Canada--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

28th ed.

Other Title:

Harper Conservatives - climate of change

Place of Publication:

Montreal, QC : Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University by McGil, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the twenty-eighth edition of How Ottawa Spends leading Canadian scholars examine the Harper government agenda in the context of Stéphane Dion's election as Liberal opposition leader and the emergence of climate change as a dominant political and policy issue. This volume focuses on Quebec-Canada relations and federal-provincial fiscal imbalance. Contributors explore several key policy and expenditure issues, including Canada-U.S. relations, the Federal Accountability Act, energy policy, health care, child care, crime and punishment, consumer policy, and public service labour relations. They also offer a critical analysis of the challenges to overall governance, including ministerial responsibility, public-private partnerships, and the handling of long-term spending commitments inherited by succeeding governments. Contributors include Timothy Barkiw (Ryerson), Gerard Boychuk (Waterloo), Keith Brownsey (Mount Royal College, Calgary), Peter Graefe (McMaster), Geoffrey Hale (Lethbridge), Carey Hill (Western Ontario), Ruth Hubbard (Ottawa), Derek Ireland (PhD student, Carleton), Rachel Laforest (Queen's), Ian Lee (Carleton), Trevor Lynn (Saskatchewan), Jonathan Malloy (Carleton), Scott Millar (Government of Canada), Gilles Paquet (emeritus, Ottawa), Michael Prince (Victoria), Christopher Stoney (Carleton), Gene Swimmer (Carleton), Katherine Teghtsoonian (Victoria), Andrew Teliszewsky (Ontario Minister of Health Promotion), Lori Turnbull (Dalhousie), and Kernaghan Webb (Ryerson University).

Contents:

The Harper conservatives in power : emissions impossible / Bruce Doern

Addressing the fiscal imbalance through asymmetrical federalism : dangerous times for the Harper government and for Canada / Andrew Teliszewsky and Christopher Stoney

La grande secuction : wooing Quebec / Peter Graefe and Rachel Laforest

"Getting down to business" rebuilding Canada-U.S. relations under the Harper government / Geoffrey E. Hale

The Federal Accountability Act : how Ottawa steps backward in monitoring political ethics and integrity / Lori Turnbull

Why ministerial responsibility can still work / Jonathan Malloy and Scott Millar

Room for manoeuver? The Tory agenda and Liberal commitments / Carey Anne Hill and Trevor E. Lynn

Energy shift : Canadian energy policy under the Harper Conservatives / Keith Brownsey

Patience! ... Wait time guarantees and conservative health care policy / Gerard W. Boychuk

The Harper government's Universal Child Care Plan : paradoxical or purposeful social policy? / Michael J. Prince and Katherine Teghstsoonian

Federal public service labour relations : business as usual? / Timothy J. Barkiw and Gene Swimmer

Righting wrongs : locking them up without losing the key - Tory reforms to crime and punishment / Ian Lee

Public-private partnerships : P3 and the "porcupine problem" / Ruth Hubbard and Giles Paquet

Consumer protection through free markets, small government, and individual responsibility? The federal approach, 1993-2007 / Derek Ireland and Kernaghan Webb

Appendix A : Canadian political facts and trends

Appendix B : fiscal facts and trends.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-86609-5

9786612866098

0-7735-7562-6

OCLC:

923233784