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The Provincial State in Canada

The Provincial State in Canada

Politics in the Provinces and Territories

Edited by Keith Brownsey and Michael Howlett

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

494 Pages, 151.00 × 223.00 × 29.00 mm

Paperback
9781551113685
Published: January 2001

£38.00

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One of the enduring ironies of Canadian political life is that John A. Macdonald and the other Fathers of Confederation believed the provinces would wither away, becoming little more than municipal governments providing a few insignificant services to the individuals and communities within their boundaries. However, given their constitutional jurisdiction over ever more significant policy fields, Canada's provinces and territories have become ever more powerful "states" in their own right.

This book attempts an up-to-date overview of recent Canadian provincial and territorial politics by surveying the evolution and development of the political economy of each jurisdiction. Consideration is given to the distinct institutional features of each province and territory but the emphasis throughout is on the broader canvas of internal, regional, inter-regional, and region-to-centre debates and preoccupations of provincial political life. The essays devote much attention to the various strategies undertaken by the provinces and territories to deal with contemporary challenges such as those posed by internationalization of trade, industrial restructuring, program spending cuts, privatization, and deregulation.

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

1. Introduction: The Provincial State in Canada
Keith Brownsey and Michael Howlett

2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Regime Change in Newfoundland
Valerie A. Summers

3. Nova Scotia: The Political Economy of Regime Change
James Bickerton

4. The Challenge of New Brunswick Politics
Hugh Mellon

5. Prince Edward Island: Politics in a Beleaguered Garden III
David A. Milne

6. The Beleaguered State: Québec at the End of the 1990s
Luc Bernier

7. Divided Province, Growing Protests: Ontario Moves Right
Robert McDermid and Greg Albo

8. Paradigm Shift: A Sketch of Manitoba Politics
Alex Netherton

9. Saskatchewan: From Entrepreneurial State to Embedded State
Ken Rasmussen

10. Alberta: Experiments in Governance—From Social Credit to the Klein Revolution
Peter J. Smith

11. British Columbia: Politics in a Post-Staples Political Economy
Michael Howlett and Keith Brownsey

12. The Northwest Territories: Old and New Class Politics on the Northern Frontier
Peter Clancy

13. Still Frontier, Always Homeland: Yukon Politics in the Year 2000
Floyd McCormick

14. Nunavut: Inuit Self-Determination Through a Land Claim and Public Government?
Jack Hicks and Graham White

15. Comparative Provincial Politics: A Review
Christopher Dunn

Contributors

Index

Keith Brownsey teaches political science at Mount Royal College in Calgary. He has published extensively in the area of Canadian politics, specializing in provincial politics.

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University and Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.