The growth of government in Ontario included a lush proliferation of agencies, boards, commissions, and crown corporations, from the Sol- diers' Aid Commission, founded in 1915, to the more contemporary Ontario Council on the Status of Women. [...] Since nomination to these important bodies constitutes one of the most important ways that the people of Ontario gain a voice in the institutions and agencies of government, it is fair to add that party allegiance is neither the only, nor always the more important, consideration in filling vacancies. [...] Jonathan Manthorpe's The Power and the Tories (Toronto, 1974) explained the longevity of the Progressive Conservatives; the Toronto Star's Rosemary Speirs, in Out of the Blue: The Fall of the Tory Dynasty in Ontario (Toronto, 1986), gave the end of the story. [...] The population of Northern Ontario is spread over a huge territory and such distances sometimes require the recognition of a subdivision between the northwest, centred on Thunder Bay, and the northeast, containing the urban centres of Sault Ste Marie, Sudbury, Timmins, and North Bay. [...] Apart from the north, the east is generally the most economically depressed region of the province - even its farmland is inferior to that in the southwest - and it benefits from the Eastern Ontario Development Corporation.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 320.9713
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 0802008909 9781442670198
- LCCN
- JL276
- LCCN Item number
- G68 1997eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (viii, 458 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00600163 (OCoLC)244767406 (CaOOCEL)417734
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- Part I: Introduction 10
- 1 Sic Permanet: Ontario People and Their Politics 12
- 2 The Socio-Economic Setting of Ontario Politics 28
- 3 The Ontario Political Culture: An Interpretation 58
- Part II: Governmental Institutions 78
- 4 The Legislature: Central Symbol of Ontario Democracy 80
- 5 Making and Implementing the Decisions: Issues of Public Administration in the Ontario Government 102
- 6 Local Government in Ontario 135
- 7 Ontario in Confederation: The Not-So-Friendly Giant 167
- Part III: Politics 196
- 8 Elections and Campaigning: 'They Blew Our Doors Off on the Buy' 198
- 9 Ontario Party Politics in the 1990s: Comfort Meets Conviction 225
- 10 Spinning Tales: Politics and the News in Ontario 245
- 11 Judging Women's Political Success in the 1990s 277
- 12 Politics and Policy in the North 293
- 13 The New World of Interest-Group Politics in Ontario 316
- Part IV: Change and Continuity in the Ontario Political System 338
- 14 An Insiders' View of the NDP Government of Ontario: The Politics of Permanent Opposition Meets the Economics of Permanent Recession 340
- 15 Reclaiming the 'Pink Palace': The Progressive Conservative Party Comes in from the Cold 374
- 16 The Harris Government: Restoration or Revolution? 411
- 17 Change in Ontario Politics 427
- Appendix 1: A Guide to Sources on Ontario Government and Politics 452
- Appendix 2: Legislative, Executive, and Political Records at the Archives of Ontario: A Brief Guide 458
- Contributors 464
