Policy Transformation in Canada
Is the Past Prologue?
Published on 19. March 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-4875-2324-4 (ISBN)
Description
Canada's centennial anniversary in 1967 coincided with a period of transformative public policymaking. This period saw the establishment of the modern welfare state, as well as significant growth in the area of cultural diversity, including multiculturalism and bilingualism. Meanwhile, the rising commitment to the protection of individual and collective rights was captured in the project of a "just society."
Tracing the past, present, and future of Canadian policymaking, Policy Transformation in Canada examines the country's current and most critical challenges: the renewal of the federation, managing diversity, Canada's relations with Indigenous peoples, the environment, intergenerational equity, global economic integration, and Canada's role in the world. Scrutinizing various public policy issues through the prism of Canada's sesquicentennial, the contributors consider the transformation of policy and present an accessible portrait of how the Canadian view of policymaking has been reshaped, and where it may be heading in the next fifty years.
Tracing the past, present, and future of Canadian policymaking, Policy Transformation in Canada examines the country's current and most critical challenges: the renewal of the federation, managing diversity, Canada's relations with Indigenous peoples, the environment, intergenerational equity, global economic integration, and Canada's role in the world. Scrutinizing various public policy issues through the prism of Canada's sesquicentennial, the contributors consider the transformation of policy and present an accessible portrait of how the Canadian view of policymaking has been reshaped, and where it may be heading in the next fifty years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-2324-4 (9781487523244)
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Carolyn Tuohy is a professor emeritus of political science and founding fellow in the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto.
Sophie Borwein is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Toronto, Junior Fellow of Massey College, and the first public editor of University of Toronto's student newspaper, a role focused on serving the interests of both the newspaper's readers and its journalists.
Peter John Loewen is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Andrew Potter is a noted journalist and editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen.
Sophie Borwein is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Toronto, Junior Fellow of Massey College, and the first public editor of University of Toronto's student newspaper, a role focused on serving the interests of both the newspaper's readers and its journalists.
Peter John Loewen is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Andrew Potter is a noted journalist and editor-in-chief of the Ottawa Citizen.
Content
Preface
1. Downstream from the Centennial: Navigating Fifty Years of Policy Change
Sophie Borwein and Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
Part I: Generational Prospects, Then and Now
2. Dreams along a Journey
Michael Valpy
3. Discounting Now and Then
Joseph Heath
4. Postponed Adulthood, the Inequality Surge, and the Millennial Burden
John Myles
5. Half a Century of Pension Reform in Canada
Daniel Beland
Part II: The Economy, the Environment, and the Federation
6. The Economy: From Innovation to Policy
Michelle Alexopoulos and Jon Cohen
7. Natural Resources, Federalism, and the Canadian Economy
Kathryn Harrison
8. Environmental Policy Transformations and Canada at 150
Jennifer Winter
9. The Environment as an Urban Policy Issue in Canada
Matti Siemiatycki
10. Canada's Radical Fiscal Federation: The Next Fifty Years
Kevin Milligan
Part III: Rethinking Sovereignty, Allegiance, and Rights
11. Reasonable Accommodation, Diversity, and the Supreme Court of Canada
Emmett Macfarlane
12. Invisibility, Wilful Blindness, Impending Doom: The Future (if Any) of Canadian Federalism
Jean Leclair
13. Canadian Federalism, Canadian Allegiance, and Economic Inequality
Jeremy Webber
14. Indigenous-Canadian Relations at the Sesquicentennial: An Opportunity for Real and Lasting Transformation
Sheryl Lightfoot
15. Reconciliation with a Question Mark: Three Moments
Christa Scholtz
16. Reconciliation, Colonization, and Climate Futures
Deborah McGregor
Part IV: Canada's Borders and Beyond
17. Fifty Years of Canadian Immigration Policy
Antje Ellermann
18. From Gerin-Lajoie to USMCA: The Role of the Canadian Provinces in Trade Negotiation
Stephane Paquin
19. Canada and the World: Managing Insecurity in a Changing Global Order
Aisha Ahmad
20. Has Canada Reached Policy Gridlock?
Peter Loewen and Andrew Potter
Contributors
1. Downstream from the Centennial: Navigating Fifty Years of Policy Change
Sophie Borwein and Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
Part I: Generational Prospects, Then and Now
2. Dreams along a Journey
Michael Valpy
3. Discounting Now and Then
Joseph Heath
4. Postponed Adulthood, the Inequality Surge, and the Millennial Burden
John Myles
5. Half a Century of Pension Reform in Canada
Daniel Beland
Part II: The Economy, the Environment, and the Federation
6. The Economy: From Innovation to Policy
Michelle Alexopoulos and Jon Cohen
7. Natural Resources, Federalism, and the Canadian Economy
Kathryn Harrison
8. Environmental Policy Transformations and Canada at 150
Jennifer Winter
9. The Environment as an Urban Policy Issue in Canada
Matti Siemiatycki
10. Canada's Radical Fiscal Federation: The Next Fifty Years
Kevin Milligan
Part III: Rethinking Sovereignty, Allegiance, and Rights
11. Reasonable Accommodation, Diversity, and the Supreme Court of Canada
Emmett Macfarlane
12. Invisibility, Wilful Blindness, Impending Doom: The Future (if Any) of Canadian Federalism
Jean Leclair
13. Canadian Federalism, Canadian Allegiance, and Economic Inequality
Jeremy Webber
14. Indigenous-Canadian Relations at the Sesquicentennial: An Opportunity for Real and Lasting Transformation
Sheryl Lightfoot
15. Reconciliation with a Question Mark: Three Moments
Christa Scholtz
16. Reconciliation, Colonization, and Climate Futures
Deborah McGregor
Part IV: Canada's Borders and Beyond
17. Fifty Years of Canadian Immigration Policy
Antje Ellermann
18. From Gerin-Lajoie to USMCA: The Role of the Canadian Provinces in Trade Negotiation
Stephane Paquin
19. Canada and the World: Managing Insecurity in a Changing Global Order
Aisha Ahmad
20. Has Canada Reached Policy Gridlock?
Peter Loewen and Andrew Potter
Contributors