How Ottawa spends, 2006-2007 : in from the cold - the Tory rise and the Liberal demise / edited by G. Bruce Doern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doern, G. Bruce.

Carleton University. School of Public Policy and Administration.

Series:

How Ottawa Spends Series

How Ottawa spends ; 2006-2007

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government spending policy--Canada.

Government spending policy.

Canada--Appropriations and expenditures.

Canada.

Canada--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

[27th ed.].

Other Title:

In from the cold - the Tory rise and the Liberal demise

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, by McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In the twenty-seventh edition of How Ottawa Spends, leading Canadian scholars examine the Tory agenda in relation to the changing dynamics of a resurgent Western Canadian power base, Quebec-Canada relations, Canada-U.S. tensions, and key Paul Martin Liberal policies." "Contributors explore the challenges created by unsustainable promises by both major parties on expenditures and growth. They also look at the thorny issues of federal procurement policy and ethics, fiscal policy, energy policy, equalization and energy revenues, cancer control, patent policy and access to emergency medicines, the regulation of tobacco, gambling, and alcohol, and efforts to review spending." "How Ottawa Spends offers an invaluable analysis of the priorities of the Harper government in the context of the policies of the defeated Liberal minority government. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 The Harper Conservative Agenda: True Blue or Liberal-Lite?""; ""PART I: MACRO CHOICES AND CHALLENGES""; ""2 Trading Up or Treading Water? Federal Fiscal and Budgetary Policies in Search of a New Mandate""; ""3 Offshore Energy Revenues and Equalization: Having Your Cake and Eating it Too?""; ""4 Canadian Energy Policy: Supply, Sustainability, and a Policy Vacuum""; ""PART II: HOW OTTAWA BUYS: PROCUREMENT AND ETHICS""; ""5 How Ottawa Buys: Procurement Policy and Politics Beyond Gomery""; ""6 How Ottawa Does Business: Ethics as a Government Program""

""7 Ottawa's Spending on Public Opinion Research: Implications for Democratic Governance""""8 The Maritime Helicopter Project: The Costly Politics of Military Procurement""; ""PART III: SELECTED POLICY, POLITICAL AND BUDGETARY REALMS""; ""9 How Ottawa Reviews Spending: Moving Beyond Adhocracy?""; ""10 Chasing a National Priority: Health Canada, the Public Health Agency, and a Canadian Strategy For Cancer Control""; ""11 Access to Emergency Medicines: How Ottawa Amends the Patent Act""; ""12 Government Approaches to the Regulation of ""Sin""""

""Appendix A: Canadian Political Facts and Trends, 2005""""Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends, 2005""; ""Contributors""

ISBN:

1-282-86671-0

9786612866715

0-7735-7626-6

OCLC:

923234867