Managing the federation

Tony Valeri, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons VOLUME 2 Privacy in the Information Age: Government Services and You VOLUME 3 THE Break-on-Through: Communities and CROSSING the New Economy BOUNDARIES VOLUME 4 Managing the Federation: PAPERS From Digital Divide to Digital Opportunity: Aboriginal Voice Final Report A Citizen-Centred Approach VOLUME VOLUME 5 SEVEN Editors: Getting to Gr [...] Their attention is focused on the goals or outcomes they want to achieve, such as making the streets safer, purifying the air, stimulating the economy or the caring for the sick. [...] The rise of the welfare state brought a new and expanded role for the provinces, major growth in their bureaucracies, and the institutionalization of equalization payments. [...] The Conservative government’s fourth principle confirms that it wants to strengthen the economic union by getting the provinces to reduce barriers to the free movement of people, capital, services and investment within the country. [...] The advantage it provides over the traditional way of tackling intergovernmental issues is that is starts with the easiest piece–service delivery–and then “backs into” the more difficult issues one step at a time, all the while being guided by the citizen-centred principle.