How Ottawa Spends, 2006-2007

by Doern, G. Bruce

• ISBN13: 9780773531260
• ISBN10: 0773531262
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

In the twenty-seventh edition ofHow Ottawa Spends, leading Canadian scholars examine the Tory agenda in relation to the changing dynamics of a resurgent Western Canadian power base, Quebec-Canada relations, Canada-U.S. tensions, and key Martin policies. Contributors explore the challenges that have been created by unsustainable promises made by both major parties on expenditures and growth. They also look at the thorny issues of federal procurement policy and ethics, fiscal policy, energy policy, equalization and energy revenues, cancer control, patent policy and access to emergency medicines, the regulation of tobacco, gambling, and alcohol, and efforts to review spending.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1 The Harper Conservative Agenda: True Blue or Liberal-Lite?	3	(24)
G. Bruce Doern
PART I MACRO CHOICES AND CHALLENGES
2 Trading Up or Treading Water? Federal Fiscal and Budgetary Policies in Search of a New Mandate	27	(23)
Geoffrey E. Hale
3 Offshore Energy Revenues and Equalization: Having Your Cake and Eating it Too?	50	(23)
André Plourde
4 Canadian Energy Policy: Supply, Sustainability, and a Policy Vacuum	73	(22)
Keith Brownsey
PART II HOW OTTAWA BUYS: PROCUREMENT AND ETHICS
5 How Ottawa Buys: Procurement Policy and Politics Beyond Gomery	95	(21)
Barbara Allen
6 How Ottawa Does Business: Ethics as a Government Program	116	(22)
John Langford and Allan Tupper
7 Ottawa's Spending on Public Opinion Research: Implications for Democratic Governance	138	(24)
Andrea D. Rounce
8 The Maritime Helicopter Project: The Costly Politics of Military Procurement	162	(23)
Tanya Neima and Christopher Stoney
PART III SELECTED POLICY, POLITICAL AND BUDGETARY REALMS
9 How Ottawa Reviews Spending: Moving Beyond Adhocracy?	185	(23)
Evert Lindquist
10 Chasing a National Priority: Health Canada, the Public Health Agency, and a Canadian Strategy For Cancer Control	208	(21)
Michael J. Prince
11 Access to Emergency Medicines: How Ottawa Amends the Patent Act	229	(18)
Lisa Mills and Ashley Weber
12 Government Approaches to the Regulation of "Sin"	247	(22)
Malcolm Bird and Christopher Stoney
Appendix A: Canadian Political Facts and Trends, 2005	269	(5)
Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends, 2005	274	(17)
Contributors	291