How Ottawa spends, 1990-91 : tracking the second agenda / 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:

Carleton public policy series ; Number 1.

Carleton Public Policy Series, 0822-6482 ; Number 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance, Public--Canada.

Finance, Public.

Canada--Appropriations and expenditures.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

[11th edition].

Place of Publication:

Ottawa, [Ontario] : Carleton University Press, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the eleventh edition of How Ottawa Spends .Like previous editions, it focusses on particular departments and policy initiatives of the federal government. This year's edition also deals with some of the internal management issues that have emerged as important in the government's quest for efficiency and productivity. 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 second edition since the re-election of a Conservative majority government in November 1988. We now have an opportunity to assess the direction of the second Tory agenda. It seems important to start this assessment by asking some very basic questions: Is there a discernible government agenda? To what extent can we see similarities and differences in the direction of Conservative initiatives when we compare their first and second terms? What accounts for any similarities and differences that emerge? What are the implications of the direction of government initiatives? These questions are given broad treatment in the book's first chapter, which focusses largely on the February 1990 Budget and the federal Estimates for the 1990-91 fiscal year. That analysis is intended to set the stage for the more specific discussions of the federal agenda which follow.

Contents:

Preface

Tracking the Second Agenda: Once More with Feeling? / Katherine A. Graham

The Goods and Services 13K: from Thx Reform / Allan M. Maslove

Lessons The Department of Industry, Science and Thchnology: Is There Industrial Policy After Free Trade? / G. Bruce Doern

Adjusting to Win? The NewTory Training Initiative / Rianne Mahon

Defining the Agenda for Environmental Protection / Douglas A. Smith

Little Help On The Prairie: Canadian Farm Income Programs and the Western Grain Economy / Michael J. Prince

"Slowing the Steamroller:" The Federal Conservatives, the Social Sector and Child Benefits Reform / Allan Moscovitch

"If You're So Damned Smart, Why Don't You Run Government Like a Business?" / C. Lloyd Brown-John

Managing the Federal Public Service As the Knot Tightens / David Zussman

Appendices: Fiscal Facts and Trends

Subscribers

The Authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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

ISBN:

0-7735-9165-6

OCLC:

883909510