How Ottawa Spends, 2006-2007: In From the Cold: The Tory Rise and the Liberal Demise (Volume 27) (How Ottawa Spends Series)

The priorities of the Harper government analyzed in the context of the policies of the defeated Liberal minority government. Contents Preface 1 The Harper Conservative Agenda: True Blue or Liberal-Lite? PART I: MACRO CHOICES AND CHALLENGES 2 Trading Up or Treading Water? Federal Fiscal and Budgetary Policies in Search of a New Mandate 3 Offshore Energy Revenues and Equalization: Having Your Cake and Eating it Too? 4 Canadian Energy Policy: Supply, Sustainability, and a Policy Vacuum PART II: HOW OTTAWA BUYS: PROCUREMENT AND ETHICS 5 How Ottawa Buys: Procurement Policy and Politics Beyond Gomery 6 How Ottawa Does Business: Ethics as a Government Program 7 Ottawa's Spending on Public Opinion Research: Implications for Democratic Governance 8 The Maritime Helicopter Project: The Costly Politics of Military Procurement PART III: SELECTED POLICY, POLITICAL AND BUDGETARY REALMS 9 How Ottawa Reviews Spending: Moving Beyond Adhocracy? 10 Chasing a National Priority: Health Canada, the Public Health Agency, and a Canadian Strategy For Cancer Control 11 Access to Emergency Medicines: How Ottawa Amends the Patent Act 12 Government Approaches to the Regulation of "Sin" Appendix A: Canadian Political Facts and Trends, 2005 Appendix B: Fiscal Facts and Trends, 2005 Contributors In the twenty-seventh edition of How Ottawa Spends, leading Canadian scholars examine the Tory agenda in relation to the changing dynamics of a resurgent Western Canadian power base, Quebec-Canada relations, Canada-U.S. tensions, and key Martin policies. Contributors explore the challenges that have been created by unsustainable promises made by both major parties on expenditures and growth. They also look at the thorny issues of federal procurement policy and ethics, fiscal policy, energy policy, equalization and energy revenues, cancer control, patent policy and access to emergency medicines, the regulation of tobacco, gambling, and alcohol, and efforts to review spending. Contributors include Barbara Allen (Birmingham and Carleton), Malcolm Bird (Carleton), Keith Brownsey (Mount Royal College), Bruce Doern (Carleton and Exeter), Geoffrey Hale (Lethbridge), John Langford (Victoria), Evert Lindquist (Victoria), Lisa Mills (Carleton), Tanya Neima (Carleton), Andre Plourde (Alberta), Michael Prince (Victoria), Andrea Rounce (Carleton), Christopher Stoney (Carleton), Allan Tupper (British Columbia), and Ashley Weber (Carleton). "In the twenty-seventh edition of How Ottawa Spends, leading Canadian scholars examine the Tory agenda in relation to the changing dynamics of a resurgent Western Canadian power base, Quebec-Canada relations, Canada-U.S. tensions, and key Paul Martin Liberal policies." "Contributors explore the challenges created by unsustainable promises by both major parties on expenditures and growth. They also look at the thorny issues of federal procurement policy and ethics, fiscal policy, energy policy, equalization and energy revenues, cancer control, patent policy and access to emergency medicines, the regulation of tobacco, gambling, and alcohol, and efforts to review spending." "How Ottawa Spends offers an invaluable analysis of the priorities of the Harper government in the context of the policies of the defeated Liberal minority government. Book jacket."--Jacket