Since the rise of the Canadian welfare state in the aftermath of the Second World War, the politics of social policy and fiscal federalism have been at the centre of federal-provincial relations. Recent events have given impetus for scholars to re-examine these issues.
Authors
Jean-Francois Graudreault-Desbiens, Sujit Choudhry, Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens, Lorne Sossin
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 339.5/2/0971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0802091261 9781442673922
- LCCN
- HC120.I5
- LCCN Item number
- C46 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 218 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00601119 (OCoLC)666901760 (CaOOCEL)418902
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Introduction 12
- Part One: Social Justice and the Politics of Redistribution 38
- Social Justice: Does Federalism Make a Difference? 40
- Comments 54
- Redistribution in the Canadian Federation: The Impact of the Cities Agenda and the New Canada 54
- Social Justice in Overlapping Sharing Communities 66
- Part Two: Taxation and the Search for Redistribution 82
- Personal Income Tax and Redistribution in the Canadian Federation 84
- Comments 114
- Taxation, Redistribution, and Fiscal Federalism 114
- Is Vertical Equity a Virtuous End? 125
- Personal Income Tax, Redistribution, and Fiscal Federalism in Canada: Some Observations 134
- Part Three: The Spending Power and the Constitutional Architecture of Redistribution 152
- The Federal Spending Power and Fiscal Imbalance in Canada 154
- Comments 176
- Liberty and Overlapping Federalism 176
- Fiscal Federalism: Not Resolvable by Constitutional Law 184
- The Irreducible Federal Necessity of Jurisdictional Autonomy, and the Irreducibility of Federalism to Jurisdictional Autonomy 194
- Afterword: Solidarity as the Boldness of Modesty 215
- Contributors 226
