How Ottawa spends, 2013-2014 : the Harper government: mid-term blues and long term plans / edited by Christopher Stoney and G. Bruce Doern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoney, Christopher, Author.

Contributor:

Carleton University. School of Public Policy and Administration, issuing body.

Doern, G. Bruce, editor of compilation, author.

Stoney, Christopher, editor of compilation, author.

Series:

How Ottawa Spends

How Ottawa Spends ; v.34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deficit financing--Canada.

Deficit financing.

Government spending policy--Canada.

Government spending policy.

Canada--Appropriations and expenditures.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

[34th edition].

Distribution:

Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Québec] ; Ithaca [New York] : Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 2013-14 edition of How Ottawa Spends critically examines national politics, priorities, and policies with a close lens on Stephen Harper's Conservative party during the middle of their first term as a majority. Contributors from across Canada examine the federal government and its not uncommon mid-term problems but also its considerable agenda of long term plans, both set in the midst of national economic fragility and a global fiscal and debt crisis. Individual chapters examine several related political, policy, and spending realms including the Budget Action Plan, the ten year Canada Health Transfer Plan, the Canada Pension Plan, and Old Age Security reforms. The contributors also consider austerity related public sector downsizing and strategic spending reviews, national energy, and related environmental strategies, and the growing Harper practice of "one-off" federalism.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1 - The Harper Government: Mid-Term Blues and Long-Term Plans""; ""PART ONE - Economic and Social Structural Agenda Plans and Challenges""; ""2- Is the Budget Action Plan and the Related Harper Agenda a Coherent Plan for Economic Growth?""; ""3 - The Provinces in the Credit Markets: Market Discipline and the New Classical Federalism""; ""4 - The Conservative 10-Year Canada Health Transfer Plan: Another Fix for a Generation?""; ""5 - Blue Rinse: Harper�s Treatment of Old Age Security and Other Elderly Benefits""

""6 - The Politics of the Canada Pension Plan: Private Pensions and Federal-Provincial Parallelism""""7 - The Alleged Downsizing of the Federal Public Service under the Harper Conservatives""; ""8 - How Ottawa Controls: Harper Era Strategic Reviews in the Context of the 1993�1996 Liberal Program Review""; ""9 - National Unity through Disengagement: The Harper Government�s One-Off Federalism""; ""10 - Energy Strategy under the Harper Government: Provincial and Industry-Led""; ""PART TWO - Selected Policy and Departmental Issues and Realms""

""11 - (Re)Defining the Apprenticeship Problem in Canada: Completion Rate Efficiency versus More Equitable Entry""""12 - Promises to Keep: Federal Spending on Communications and Transportation Infrastructure in the Territorial North""; ""13 - “Not Good Enough�: Canada�s Stalled Disability Policy""; ""14 - Pragmatism and Political Expediency: Housing Policy under the Harper Regime""; ""15 - Single-Purpose Entities in the Governance of a Multiplex World""; ""16 - The Promise and Paradox of Open Government in the Harper Era""

""17 - The Policies and Politics of Federal Public Transit Infrastructure Spending""""18 - The Aboriginal Health Transition Fund: Partnerships to Integrate and Adapt Health Services for Aboriginal Peoples""; ""APPENDIX A - Canadian Political Facts and Trends""; ""APPENDIX B - Fiscal Facts and Trends""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780773590007

0773590005

9780773589995

0773589996

OCLC:

870652553