How Ottawa spends, 2007-2008 [[electronic resource] ] : the Harper Conservatives - climate of change / / edited by G. Bruce Doern

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459665103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal, QC, : Published for the School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University by McGil, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-86609-5; 9786612866098; 0-7735-7562-6
• Edizione: [28th ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Collana: How Ottawa spends
• Altri autori (Persone): DoernG. Bruce
• Disciplina: 354.7
• Soggetti: Government spending policy - Canada; Electronic books.; Canada Appropriations and expenditures; Canada Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: The Harper conservatives in power : emissions impossible / Bruce Doern -- Addressing the fiscal imbalance through asymmetrical federalism : dangerous times for the Harper government and for Canada / Andrew Teliszewsky and Christopher Stoney -- La grande secuction : wooing Quebec / Peter Graefe and Rachel Laforest -- "Getting down to business" rebuilding Canada-U.S. relations under the Harper government / Geoffrey E. Hale -- The Federal Accountability Act : how Ottawa steps backward in monitoring political ethics and integrity / Lori Turnbull -- Why ministerial responsibility can still work / Jonathan Malloy and Scott Millar -- Room for manoeuver? The Tory agenda and Liberal commitments / Carey Anne Hill and Trevor E. Lynn -- Energy shift : Canadian energy policy under the Harper Conservatives / Keith Brownsey -- Patience! ... Wait time guarantees and conservative health care policy / Gerard W. Boychuk -- The Harper government's Universal Child Care Plan : paradoxical or purposeful social policy? / Michael J. Prince and Katherine Teghstsoonian -- Federal public service labour relations : business as usual? / Timothy J. ; Barkiw and Gene Swimmer -- Righting wrongs : locking them up without losing the key - Tory reforms to crime and punishment / Ian Lee -- Public-private partnerships : P3 and the "porcupine problem" / Ruth Hubbard and Giles Paquet -- Consumer protection through free markets, small government, and individual responsibility? The federal approach, 1993-2007 / Derek Ireland and Kernaghan Webb -- Appendix A : Canadian political facts and trends -- Appendix B : fiscal facts and trends.