Policy Politics Canada

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Temple University Press, 1992 M06 11 - 397 pages

At a time when Canadian political institutions are being fundamentally questioned, this book provides a comparative perspective on the distinctive features of the Canadian policy process hich have enabled conflict to be resolved in the past. In comparison with other Western industrial nations, Canada's policies in some arenas appear as models of workable compromise; in others, they stand out as marked by continuing irresolution. In this first book-length treatment of Canadian public policy in comparative perspective, Carolyn Tuohy focuses on constitutional change, health care delivery, industrial relations and labor market policy, economic development and adjustment, oil and gas policy, and minority language rights.

What distinguishes Canada's characteristic policy process is its quintessential ambivalence: ambivalence about the appropriate role of the state, about definitions of political community, and about individual and collective values and conceptions of rights. Embedded in the country's political institutions, it has deep roots in Canada's relationship to the United States, its history of English-French tensions, and its regional diversity.

Examining in particular the delicate federal-provincial division of power and the legislative-judicial relationship, Tuohy discusses how the constitutional debates of the 1980s and 1990s are testing Canada's institutions to resolve conflict.



In the series Policy and Politics in Industrial States, edited by Douglas E. Ashford, Peter J. Katzenstein, and T.J. Pempel.

 

Contents

Introduction
3
The Roots of Ambivalence
7
The Institutionalization of Ambivalence
25
The Organization of Interests
43
Conclusions
51
Notes
54
Constitutional Change
58
Context
59
46 LABOUR ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AND LABOURMARKET POLICY
205
Notes
208
Economic Development and Adjustment
211
Context
215
Agenda
223
Consequences
236
51 THE BCNI CRITIQUE OF CANADIAN INDUSTRIAL POLICY
241
FULL EMPLOYMENT AND GREATER PUBLIC CONTROL
244

Agenda
62
Process
66
Consequences
73
21 THE PEQUISTE MANIFESTO
87
22 THE FEDERAL RESPONSE TO QUEBECS CONSTITUTIONAL AGENDA
89
23 THE QUEBEC REFERENDUM
92
25 THE QUEBEC LIBERALS CONSTITUTIONAL POSITION DURING THE 1980 REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN
93
26 THE MEECH LAKE ACCORD EXCERPTS
96
27 TRUDEAUS CRITICISM OF THE ACCORD
98
28 ONE LEGISLATORS AMBIVALENCE
101
Notes
103
Health Care Delivery
105
Context
109
Agenda
112
Process
122
Consequences
132
31 A HEALTH CHARTER FOR CANADIANS
140
CLINICAL JUDGEMENT A MEDICAL VIEW
143
CANADIAN MEDICARE
144
34 THE CANADIAN NURSES ASSOCIATION AND CANADIAN MEDICARE
146
35 A CONSUMERS COALITION SEEKS A COMMUNITYBASED HEALTH PLAN
147
36 EXTRABILLING AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF SOCIAL PROGRAMS
149
37 TH E MEDICAL PROFESSION SEEKS A PARTNERSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT
150
38 THE POLICY AGENDA OF THE 1990S AT THE PROVINCIAL LEVEL
152
Notes
155
Industrial Relations and LabourMarket Policy
159
Context
161
Agenda
169
Process
174
Consequences
188
41 and 42 THE BUSINESS VIEW OF LABOURMANAGEMENT COOPERATION
193
43 LABOURS APPROACH TO SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP
198
LABOURMANAGEMENT COOPERATION
200
45 AN EVALUATION OF GOVERNMENT ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE
202
53 THE MACDONALD COMMISSION ON CANADAUS TRADE
245
54 LABOURS FOCUS ON FULL EMPLOYMENT
248
55 THE COMMONS DEBATE ON THE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
249
Notes
253
Oil and Gas Policy Context
256
Agenda
263
Process
269
Consequences
281
61 THE GORDON COMMISSIONS VIEW OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN CANADIAN OIL
285
62 WESTERN CANADIAN RESISTANCE TO THE NATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAM
288
63 THE FEDERAL DEFENCE OF THE NATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAM
290
64 THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND THE NATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAM
292
65 FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL POWERS OVER NATURAL RESOURCES
294
Notes
296
Minority Language Rights
298
Context
302
Agenda
305
Process
308
Consequences
319
71 TRUDEAU ON LANGUAGE RIGHTS
333
72 LEVESQUE ON FRANCOPHONES OUTSIDE QUEBEC
334
73 THE MANIFESTO OF QUEBECS RADICAL NATIONALISTS
335
74 THE UNION NATIONALE GOVERNMENT ON THE STATUS OF FRENCH
337
75 THE COURTS ON LINGUISTIC EDUCATION RIGHTS
338
LANGUAGES ON MULTICULTURALISM
340
Notes
343
Competence and Crisis Canadas Ambivalent Institutions
346
Partisanship and Federalism
355
The Need for Institutional Change
358
Summary
365
References
367
Index
389
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Carolyn J. Tuohy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Carolyn J. Tuohy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

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