Policy Politics CanadaTemple 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 |
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