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Policy Transformation in Canada: Is the Past Prologue?

Edited by Carolyn Hughes Tuohy, Sophie Borwein, Peter John Loewen, and Andrew Potter

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Sales Date: 2019-03-19

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Published: March 2019

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Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Page Count: 200 Pages

Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00

200 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.30 in

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ISBN: 9781487523244

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Canada's centennial anniversary in 1967 coincided with a period of transformative public policymaking. This period saw the establishment of the modern welfare state, as well as significant growth in the area of cultural diversity, including multiculturalism and bilingualism. Meanwhile, the rising commitment to the protection of individual and collective rights was captured in the project of a "just society."

Tracing the past, present, and future of Canadian policymaking, Policy Transformation in Canada examines the country's current and most critical challenges: the renewal of the federation, managing diversity, Canada's relations with Indigenous peoples, the environment, intergenerational equity, global economic integration, and Canada's role in the world. Scrutinizing various public policy issues through the prism of Canada’s sesquicentennial, the contributors consider the transformation of policy and present an accessible portrait of how the Canadian view of policymaking has been reshaped, and where it may be heading in the next fifty years.

Sophie Borwein is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Toronto, Junior Fellow of Massey College, and the first public editor of University of Toronto’s student newspaper, a role focused on serving the interests of both the newspaper’s readers and its journalists.

Peter John Loewen is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

Preface

1. Downstream from the Centennial: Navigating Fifty Years of Policy Change
Sophie Borwein and Carolyn Hughes Tuohy

Part I: Generational Prospects, Then and Now

2. Dreams along a Journey
Michael Valpy
3. Discounting Now and Then
Joseph Heath
4. Postponed Adulthood, the Inequality Surge, and the Millennial Burden
John Myles
5. Half a Century of Pension Reform in Canada
Daniel Béland

Part II: The Economy, the Environment, and the Federation

6. The Economy: From Innovation to Policy
Michelle Alexopoulos and Jon Cohen
7. Natural Resources, Federalism, and the Canadian Economy
Kathryn Harrison
8. Environmental Policy Transformations and Canada at 150
Jennifer Winter
9. The Environment as an Urban Policy Issue in Canada
Matti Siemiatycki
10. Canada’s Radical Fiscal Federation: The Next Fifty Years
Kevin Milligan

Part III: Rethinking Sovereignty, Allegiance, and Rights

11. Reasonable Accommodation, Diversity, and the Supreme Court of Canada
Emmett Macfarlane
12. Invisibility, Wilful Blindness, Impending Doom: The Future (if Any) of Canadian Federalism
Jean Leclair
13. Canadian Federalism, Canadian Allegiance, and Economic Inequality
Jeremy Webber
14. Indigenous-Canadian Relations at the Sesquicentennial: An Opportunity for Real and Lasting Transformation
Sheryl Lightfoot
15. Reconciliation with a Question Mark: Three Moments
Christa Scholtz
16. Reconciliation, Colonization, and Climate Futures
Deborah McGregor

Part IV: Canada’s Borders and Beyond

17. Fifty Years of Canadian Immigration Policy
Antje Ellermann
18. From Gérin-Lajoie to USMCA: The Role of the Canadian Provinces in Trade Negotiation
Stéphane Paquin
19. Canada and the World: Managing Insecurity in a Changing Global Order
Aisha Ahmad
20. Has Canada Reached Policy Gridlock?
Peter Loewen and Andrew Potter

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