How Ottawa spends, 1989-90 : the buck stops where? / edited by Katherine A. Graham ; cover design, Robert Chitty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Katherine A.H., Author.

Contributor:

Graham, Katherine A., editor.

Chitty, Robert, cover designer.

Series:

How Ottawa Spends Series ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government spending policy--Canada.

Government spending policy.

Canada--Appropriations and expenditures.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

[10th edition].

Place of Publication:

Ottawa, [Ontario] : Carleton University Press, 1989.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the tenth edition of How Ottawa Spends. Like previous editions, it focuses on particular departments and policy initiatives of the federal government. Beyond evaluating past actions, the book is intended to offer informed comment on prospects for the future in the areas it explores. This is the first edition since the re-election of a Conservative majority government in November 1988. As such, it provides a specific opportunity to identify some of the issues and challenges facing the second Mulroney government. Accordingly, this particular volume moves beyond How Ottawa Spends' customary treatment of the annual budget and Estimates to examine a broader question: Are we entering a new era of Canadian federalism wherein the federal government has a new and possibly reduced role? Put somewhat differently: Are we seeing new limits to the discretion of the federal government to act? If so, what are those limits and what are their implications for the style and substance of federal policy making? The broad treatment of these questions in the book's first chapter is intended to set the stage for the more specific discussions of discretion and the federal government which follow.

Contents:

Preface

Discretion and the Governance of Canada: The Buck Stops Where? / Katherine A. Graham

The Sum of the Parts: Free Trade and Meech Lake / Harvey Lithwick and Allan Maslove

Discretion in Trade Policy: Not Necessarily the Better Part of Valour / Calum M. Carmichael

Tax Expenditures and Tory Times: More or Less Policy Discretion? / G. Bruce Doern

ACOA: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue / Donald J. Savoie

Near Hit: The Parturition of a Broadcasting Policy / John Meisel

Rock-a-Bye, Brian: The National Strategy on Child Care / Susan D. Phillips

Canada's Immigration Policy: Compassion, Economic Necessity or Lifeboat Ethics? / Nasir Islam

The Canadian Jobs Strategy: Supply Side Social Policy / Michael J. Prince and Jim J. Rice

Appendices: Fiscal Facts and Trends

The Federal Cabinet and Its Committees

Subscribers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2014).

ISBN:

0-7735-9166-4

OCLC:

883909573