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The Politics of Ontario

The Politics of Ontario

Second Edition

Edited by Cheryl N. Collier and Jonathan Malloy

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

9 b&w figures, 18 b&w tables

Digital download
9781487562243
Published: June 2024

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9781487559762
Published: June 2024

Description
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Ontario is the most populous province in Canada and perhaps the most complex. It encompasses a range of regions, cities, and local cultures, while also claiming a long-standing pre-eminence in Canadian federalism. The second edition of The Politics of Ontario aims to understand this unique and ever-changing province.

The new edition captures the growing diversity of Ontario, with new chapters on race and Ontario politics, Black Ontarians, and the relationship of Indigenous Peoples and Ontario. With contributors from across the province, the book analyses the political institutions of Ontario, key areas such as gender, Northern Ontario, the intricate Ontario political economy, and public policy challenges with the environment, labour relations, governing the GTA, and health care. Completely refreshed from the earlier edition, it emphasizes the evolution of Ontario and key public policy challenges facing the province. In doing so, The Politics of Ontario provides readers with a thorough understanding of this complicated province.

Context

1. What Is Ontario?
Jonathan Malloy

2. The Political Economy of Ontario: How Did Ontario Get So Rich? And Why Are There So Many Poor Ontarians?
Peter Graefe

3. “Business as Usual”: The Relationship Vacuum between Ontario and Indigenous Peoples
Rebecca Major

Political Institutions

4. A Brief History of Procedure at the Ontario Legislature
Tom McDowell

5. The Ontario Executive
Andrea Migone

6. Local Government and Politics in Ontario
Zac Spicer

7. Ontario Federal-Provincial Relations: Still a Responsible Partner in Confederation?
Julie Simmons

Political Actors and Identities

8. Government-Media Relations in Ontario: Political Communication in the Time of COVID
Tamara Small

9. Ontario’s Political Parties and the Party System
Anna Esselment

10. Progress Stalled… Again: Women, Gender and Party Politics in Ontario
Cheryl Collier

11. Northern Ontario
Gina Comeau

12. Race and Ontario Politics
Asif Hameed

13. “Just Want a Regular Life”: Race and the Education Credentials of Black Youth
Carl James

Policy Areas and Challenges

14. The Environment, Climate Change, and Market Populist Politics
Mark Winfield

15. The Shifting Landscape of Party-Union Relationships in Ontario
Larry Savage

16. Toronto and the GTA: Governing Ontario’s Global City
Martin Horak

17. Ontario Health Policy and Politics
Raisa Deber and Greg Marchildon

Cheryl N. Collier is a professor of political science and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Windsor.