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Canadian Federalism

Canadian Federalism

Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy, Fourth Edition

Edited by Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad

Published by: University of Toronto Press

9 figures

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9781487570460
Published: June 2020

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9781487570453
Published: July 2020

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Canadian Federalism is Canada’s leading text on federal institutions and processes. The fourth edition provides extensive updates and covers all the significant developments of the past decade, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s battles with the Supreme Court and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s efforts at a more co-operative approach to intergovernmental relations. It also features two entirely new chapters – one on criminal justice and criminal law, the other on comparative federalism. Specific topics include the Supreme Court’s renewed emphasis on co-operative federalism and a federal–provincial balance tilted more in favour of the provinces, the Trudeau government’s efforts to broker a deal between provinces over pipelines and carbon taxes as part of its commitment under the Paris Agreement, the strains imposed on federal–provincial relations with the influx of refugees, and the changing role of Ottawa and the provinces towards cities and in accommodating Indigenous rights. Examination of these key issues includes discussion of the implications of the 2019 federal election and recent provincial elections.

Part I Socio-Economic Foundations, Institutions, and Processes of Canadian Federalism

1. Canadian Federalism: Performance, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy
Herman Bakvis and Grace Skogstad

2. Canada as a Case of Comparative Federalism
Jörg Broschek

3. Quebec and the Canadian Federation
David Cameron

4. The Courts, the Division of Powers, and Dispute Resolution
Gerald Baier

5. Criminal Justice and Criminal Law
Dennis Baker

6 Federalism, Political Parties, and the Burden of National Unity: Still Making Federalism Do the Heavy Lifting?
Herman Bakvis and A. Brian Tanguay

7. Intergovernmental Relations in a Complex Federation
Robert Schertzer

Part II The Social and Economic Union

8. Federalism and Canada’s Economic Union
Grace Skogstad and Matt Wilder

9. International Trade and the Evolution of Federalism
Christopher Kukucha

10. Fiscal Federalism: The Importance of Balance
Douglas M. Brown

11. The Three Federalisms and Change in Social Policy
Keith G. Banting

12. Federalism and Universal Health Care: A Question of Performance and Effectiveness
Herman Bakvis

13. Federalism and Immigration in Canada
Mireille Paquet

14. Federalism and Canadian Climate Change Policy
Mark Winfield and Douglas Macdonald

Part III Re-imagining the Federation

15. Nation to Nation? Canadian Federalism and Indigenous Multilevel Governance
Martin Papillon

16. Municipalities in the Federation
Jack Lucas (Calgary) and Alison Smith

Conclusion: Taking Stock of Canadian Federalism
Grace Skogstad and Herman Bakvis

Herman Bakvis is a professor emeritus in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria.

Grace Skogstad is a professor emerita in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.