Coping with Canadian federalism: The case of the Federation of Canadian municipalities

Canadian Public Administration

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 528-551

  Stevenson, Don ^a   Gilbert, Richard ^a  

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EID: 33244477663     PISSN: 00084840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-7121.2005.tb01201.x     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Vincent Lemieux and John Meisel, Ethnic Relations in Canadian Voluntary Associations. Document No. 13 of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (Ottawa: Information Canada, 1972).
2. In 2002 the twenty-eight municipalities on Montreal Island and the upper-tier Montreal Urban Community became the single-tier City of Montreal. A subsequent partial de-amalgamation is undoing this simple arrangement. Meanwhile, the Montreal Metropolitan Community has been established, chaired ex officio by the mayor of Montreal and embracing more than sixty local governments in the Montreal region.
3. For a more substantial account of the history of CFMM-FCM see FCM 1937-2987: 50 Years Making History (Ottawa: Federation of Canadian Municipalities, 1987).
4. Lemieux and Meisel, Ethnic Relations, p. 234.
5. Lemieux and Meisel, Ethnic Relations Ibid., 235.
6. Tri-level Task Force on Public Finance in Canada (John J. Deutsch, chair), Report of the Trilevel Task Force on Public Finance. 3 vols. (Ottawa: Ministry of Supply and Services, 1976).
7. The unpublished document "Puppets on a String" was written by Don Richmond, policy advisor to the chairman of the Metropolitan Toronto Council, and adopted as FCM'S position at the 1976 annual conference.
8. Charles Bens and Anne Golden, The Federation of Canadian Municipalities: In Search of Credibility, Comment No. 161 (Toronto: Bureau of Municipal Research Paper, 1976).
9. This unpublished report is in FCM'S library. It was a component of a study under the general direction of Dr. Barry Wellar, originally co-sponsored by MSUA and FCM. The project's final report, Management and Planning Capacities in Small Communities, was published by FCM in April 1982.
10. Harvey Lazar and Tom McIntosh, Canada: The State of the Federation 1998/99: How Canadians Connect (Kingston, Ont.: Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's University, 1999).
11. William D. Coleman and Grace Skogstad, eds. Policy Communities and Public Policy in Canada: A Structural Approach (Mississauga, Ontario: Copp Clark Pitman, 1990).
12. Jame D. Thompson, Organizations in Action: Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967).
13. Paul A. Pross, Group Politics and Public Policy (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1986).
14. Richard Gilbert, "The Decline of the Canadian Municipality," Plan Canada 29 (1989), pp. 11-13.
15. See especially Warren Magnusson, "Urbanism, Cities, and Local Sell-Government," CANADIAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION 48, no. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 96-123.
16. Federation of Canadian Municipalities, Early Warning: Will Canadian Cities Compete? (Ottawa: National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, 2001), at http://www.fcm.ca/ english/communications/overview-e.pdf;
17. Caryl Arundel and Associates in association with Hemson Consulting Ltd, Falling Behind: Our Growing Income Gap (Ottawa: Federation of Canadian Municipalities, 2003), at http://www.fcm.ca/english/communications/igfull.pdf. The web site of FCM'S Sustainable Communities Knowledge Network is at http://kn.fcm.ca.
18. After a stint as parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, with special responsibility for cities, John Godfrey is now the minister of state for infrastructure and communities, with some responsibility for delivering the "New Deal for Communities" (see Appendix B).
19. Lemieux and Meisel, Ethnic Relations, p. 224.