Katherine A. Graham Ottawa March 1988 vii The opinions expressed by the contributors to this volume are the personal views of the authors of the individual chapters, and do not retlect the views of the editor or the School of Public Administration of Carleton University. [...] THE ROLE OF THE FEDERAL STATE: SHRINKING THE OTTAWA PLAYING FIELD Clearly, the conclusions of the subsequent chapters in this volume point to a mixed pattern in assessing the nature of discretion embodied in these initiatives of the first Conservative government. [...] The fundamental questions raised by Harvey Lithwick and Allan Maslove in this volume about the implications of the Meech Lake agreement for the role of the federal government as the maker of social and economic policy at the macro level have been conspic uously absent from any popular debates on the Accord. [...] Not only have political scientists been concerned about defining the nature, strategies and impact of particular interest groups; analyses of the relative power of differ ent groups and the implications of the hegemony of particular groups have formed the cornerstone of some of the fundamental debates in the discipline. [...] Other commentators have noted the centrality of the leadership of the Prime Minister to the government's style of operation and to the substance of its priorities.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Chapter 1 : Discretion and the Governance of Canada: The Buck Stops Where? 10
- Chapter 2 : The Sum of the Parts: Free Trade and Meech Lake 34
- Chapter 3 : Discretion in Trade Policy: Not Necessarily the Better Part of Valour 62
- Chapter 4 : Tax Expenditures and Tory Times: More or Less Policy Discretion? 84
- Chapter 5 : ACOA: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue 116
- Chapter 6 : Near Hit: The Parturition of a Broadcasting Policy 140
- Chapter 7 : Rock-a-Bye, Brian: The National Strategy on Child Care 174
- Chapter 8 : Canada's Immigration Policy: Compassion, Economic Necessity or Lifeboat Ethics? 218
- Chapter 9 : The Canadian Jobs Strategy: Supply Side Social Policy 256
- Appendices: Fiscal Facts and Trends 298
- The Federal Cabinet and Its Committees 320
- Subscribers 322
- The Authors 324
