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Political Science Economic Policy

How Ottawa Spends, 1989-1990

The Buck Stops Where?

by (author) Katherine A.H. Graham

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jun 1989
Category
Economic Policy
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780886290856
    Publish Date
    Jun 1989
    List Price
    $45.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773591660
    Publish Date
    Jun 1989
    List Price
    $100.00

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Description

This is the tenth edition of How Ottawa Spends. Like previous editions, it focuses on particular departments and policy initiatives of the federal government. Beyond evaluating past actions, the book is intended to offer informed comment on prospects for the future in the areas it explores. This is the first edition since the re-election of a Conservative majority government in November 1988. As such, it provides a specific opportunity to identify some of the issues and challenges facing the second Mulroney government. Accordingly, this particular volume moves beyond How Ottawa Spends' customary treatment of the annual budget and Estimates to examine a broader question: Are we entering a new era of Canadian federalism wherein the federal government has a new and possibly reduced role? Put somewhat differently: Are we seeing new limits to the discretion of the federal government to act? If so, what are those limits and what are their implications for the style and substance of federal policy making? The broad treatment of these questions in the book's first chapter is intended to set the stage for the more specific discussions of discretion and the federal government which follow.

About the author

Katherine A.H. Graham is professor of public policy and administration and senior advisor to the provost at Carleton University.Caroline Andrew is director of the Centre on Governance at the University of Ottawa.

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