The intergovernmental dimensions of the social union: A sectoral analysis

Canadian Public Administration

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-45

  Lazar, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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EID: 33646404623     PISSN: 00084840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-7121.2006.tb02016.x     Document Type: Review

References (30)

1. "Portraits of Canada, 2001," Centre for Research and Information on Canada (Montreal: The Centre for Research and Information on Canada, 2002). http://www.cric.ca/en_re/analys/surveys_archive. html#portraits2002.
2. Special Committee of the Quebec Liberal Party on the Political and Constitutional Future of Quebec Society under the direction of Benoit Pelletier, MNA, A Project for Quebec: Affirmation, Autonomy and Leadership (Montreal: Quebec Liberal Party, 2001).
3. See, for example, John Richards, Retooling the Welfare State: What's Right, What's Wrong, What's to Be Done (Toronto: CD. Howe Institute, 1997), pp. 224-42; and author's conversations with numerous provincial officials.
4. The project was launched by the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, in 1997, before SUFA was signed. The empirical phase of this work was completed in 2002. Some of the work done under the project has been published by the Institute. See Duane Adams, ed., Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada, (2001);
5. Tom McIntosh, ed., Federalism, Democracy and Labour Market Policy in Canada (2000);
6. and Alan Puttee, ed., Federalism, Democracy and Disability Policy in Canada (2001).
7. J. Stefan Dupré, "Reflections on the Workability of Executive Federalism," in Intergovernmental Relations, in cooperation with Richard Simeon, research coordinator for the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada (Toronto: Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, 1986).
8. J. Stefan Dupré et al., Federalism and Policy Development: The Case of Adult Occupational Training in Ontario (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973).
9. Les Pal, State, Class and Bureaucracy: Canadian Unemployment Insurance and Public Policy (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988).
10. See also Keith Banting, "The Welfare State as Statecraft: Territorial Politics and Canadian Social Policy," in Stephan Leibried and Paul Pierson, eds., European Social Policy: Between Fragmentation and Integration (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1995);
11. Carolyn Tuohy, "Health Policy and Fiscal Federalism," in Keith Banting, Doug Brown, and Thomas Courchene, eds., The Future of Fiscal Federalism (Kingston: School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, 1994), pp. 189-212;
12. Gerard Boychuk, Patchworks of Purpose: The Development of Provincial Social Assistance Regimes in Canada (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998);
13. Jacqueline Ismael, ed., Canadian Welfare Policy: Federal and Provincial Dimensions (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985).
14. It is recognized that some provincial officials view the direct use of the federal spending power as offensive as they do the use of the federal spending power where federal-provincial joint action is involved. The view here is that it is not, however, normally as coercive or intrusive.
15. Regarding the case studies, no author did more than one study. Most authors are political scientists in Canadian universities but one is a physician who does social science research, two are attached to a think tank, and two others former senior public servants. The studies listed in Table 1 have all been published by The Institute of Intergovernmental Relations. The table draws on the following: Duane Adams, "Canadian Federalism and the Development of National Health Goals and Objectives," in Duane Adams, ed., Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada;
16. Katherine Fierlbeck, "Cost Containment in Health Care: The Federalism Context," Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada ibid.
17. Joan Price Boase, "Federalism and the Health Facility Fees Challenge," Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada ibid.
18. Kumanan Wilson, "The Role of Federalism in Health Surveillance: A Case Study of the National Health-Surveillance 'Infostructure,'" Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada ibid.
19. Ken Rasmussen, "Regionalization and Collaborative Government: A New Direction for Health System Governance," Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada ibid.
20. Alan Puttee, "Reforming the Disability Insurance System: A Collaborative Approach," in Alan Puttee, ed., Federalism, Democracy and Disability Policy in Canada;
21. Roy Hanes and Allan Moscovitch, "Disability Supports and Services in the Social Union," Federalism, Democracy and Disability Policy in Canada ibid.
22. Michael Bach, "Governance Regimes in Disability-related Policies and Programs: A Focus on Community Support Systems,"Federalism, Democracy and Disability Policy in Canada ibid.
23. Tom McIntosh and Gerard W. Boychuk, "Dis-Covered: El, Social Assistance and the Growing Gap in Income Support for Unemployed Canadians," in Tom McIntosh, ed., Federalism, Democracy and Labour Market Policy in Canada;
24. Thomas R. Klassen, "The Federal-Provincial Labour Market Development Agreements: Brave New Model of Collaboration?" Federalism, Democracy and Labour Market Policy in Canada ibid.
25. and Stephen McBride and Peter Stoyko, "Youth and the Social Union: Intergovermental Relations, Youth Unemployment and School-to-Work Transitions," Federalism, Democracy and Labour Market Policy in Canada ibid.
26. This does not mean that all provinces fully agreed with the three legislative initiatives by Ottawa. Rather, it suggests that a good number of the provinces favoured these programs and that the others were not entirely reluctant partners.
27. Harvey Lazar and France St-Hilaire, eds., Money, Politics and Health Care: Reconstructing the Federal-Provincial Partnership (Kingston and Montreal: The Institute of Intergovernmental Relations and The Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2003).
28. Patricia O'Reilly, "The Federal/Provincial/Territorial Health Conference System" in Adams, ed., Federalism, Democracy and Health Policy in Canada.
29. These are the three volumes cited in note 4.
30. The issue of for-profit privatization was at best a distant second as an item of controversy.