How Ottawa Spends 2001-2002 Power in Transition

by Pal, Leslie A.

• ISBN13: 9780195416695
• ISBN10: 0195416694
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This edition of How Ottawa Spends examines the evolving Liberal government's agenda as it moves into its third term in office. The federal election of October 2000 was hardly a campaign of ideas, and the Liberals won it without a clear or detailed platform of policy initiatives. Themini-budget promised substantial tax cuts, but insofar as the Liberals sketched out any priorities, they seemed to imply a shift towards increased spending. As well, in the closing days of their previous government, the Liberals seemed tired and lacking in policy focus. It remains unclear,therefore, how they will shape their new mandate and what continuity it will have with their previous policy directions. This volume probes Ottawa's evolving agenda with chapters on a variety of economic and social policy topics: the government's fiscal and management framework, natural resources, regional development, air transportation, the social union, disability, gender equality, the voluntary sector, and thecourts.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
How Ottawa Spends 2001-2: Power in Transition	1	(28)
Leslie A. Pal
Priming the Electoral Pump: Framing Budgets for a Renewed Mandate	29	(32)
Geoffrey E. Hale
How Ottawa Plans: The Evolution of Strategic Planning	61	(34)
Evert A. Lindquist
Managing in the New Public Service: Some Implications for How We Are Governed	95	(28)
Anne Perkins
Robert P. Shepherd
Aiming for the Middle: Challenges to Federal Income Policy	123	(22)
Gerard W. Boychuk
From Charity to Clarity: Reinventing Federal Government-Voluntary Sector Relationships	145	(32)
Susan D. Phillips
Citizenship by Instalments: Federal Policies for Canadians with Disabilities	177	(24)
Michael J. Prince
The Case of the Disappearing Targets: The Liberals and Gender Equality	201	(22)
Sandra Burt
Sonya Lynn Hardman
New Economy/Old Economy? Transforming Natural Resources Canada	223	(24)
G. Bruce Doern
Monica Gattinger
Regional Development Policy: A Nexus of Policy and Politics	247	(30)
Rodney Haddow
A Delicate Dance: The Courts and the Chretien Government	277	(28)
Rainer Knopff
Appendix A: Political Facts and Trends	305	(8)
Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends	313	(18)
Abstracts/Resumes	331	(12)
Contributors	343