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Political Science General

Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs

1997

edited by David Mutimer

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2003
Category
General, Public Affairs & Administration, History & Theory
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802089267
    Publish Date
    Jan 2005
    List Price
    $155.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802088031
    Publish Date
    Nov 2003
    List Price
    $155.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802037152
    Publish Date
    Dec 2002
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    $155.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442672109
    Publish Date
    Oct 2003
    List Price
    $153.00
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    ISBN
    9781442672093
    Publish Date
    Dec 2002
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    9781442672116
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    Jan 2005
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Long praised for its accuracy, readability, and insight, the Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs offers a synoptic appraisal of the year's developments in Canadian politics. 1997 was a year of political and economic stability in Canada, and the Federal government was on the verge of a balanced budget. Inflation seemed to have been tamed, and the leading economic policy question was how the expected surpluses should be spent. The primary focuses of the surprise Federal general election campaign, held in 1997 despite Prime Minister Jean Chétien having 16 months left in his mandate, were on the government's economic record and national unity. The election caused some controversy in Manitoba simply by proceeding, as the province was preoccupied by the worst flooding in more than a century. In Alberta, Premier Ralph Klein also faced the voters again. The low point of the year came when Vancouver played host to an international summit that sparked an outcry over the RCMP's use of pepper-spray on demonstrators. However, 1997 was also the year that Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy successfully challenged world leaders to negotiate a treaty to ban the manufacture and use of anti-personnel landmines, and was able to welcome 122 nations to sign the Ottawa Convention.

About the author

David Mutimer is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and deputy director of the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University.

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