How Ottawa Spends 2000-2001 Past Imperfect, Future Tense

by Pal, Leslie A.

• ISBN13: 9780195415391
• ISBN10: 0195415396
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

How Ottawa Spends 2000-2001 explores the continuing redefinition of the federal government's role in Canadian governance. After years of deliberate down-sizing and withdrawal, Ottawa now has financial surpluses. As well, the approaching election and the sense that Ottawa must demonstrate itsrelevance are contributing to a desire for greater activism. Yet there are continued pressures to either stay the course of the first mandate or even go further with tax cuts. The volume analyzes these cross-cutting pressures in a variety of key policy areas.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Past Imperfect, Future Tense	1	(32)
Leslie A. Pal
De L'Etat-providence a l'Etat d'investissement social: Un nouveau paradigme pour enfant-er l'economie du savoir?	33	(26)
Denis Saint-Martin
Managing the Fiscal Dividend: The Politics of Selective Activism	59	(36)
Geoffrey E. Hale
Treasury Board as a Management Board: The Re-Invention of a Central Agency	95	(36)
Evan H. Potter
Battling for Remembrance: The Politics of Veterans Affairs Canada	131	(30)
Michael J. Prince
Re-Learning our ABCs? The New Governance of Aboriginal Economic Development in Canada	161	(24)
Mark R. Macdonald
Cents and Sensibility: The Emergence of e-government in Canada	185	(26)
Cynthia J. Alexander
Will That Be Small, Medium, or Large? Why Good Politics Doesn't Make Good Policy: The Case of the Canadian Financial Services Industry	211	(28)
Stephen L. Harris
The H2woes of the DFO	239	(26)
Peter Clancy
Appendix A: Political Facts and Trends	265	(8)
Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends	273	(18)
Abstracts/Resumes	291	(12)
Contributors	303